Ionization of Rydberg alkali-metal atoms in quasistatic electric fields: A classical view of the n-5 scaling of the threshold field

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Perotti, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONIZATION; MICROWAVES; QUANTUM THEORY;

CLASSICAL DIFFUSION PROCESS; MONOCHROMATIC MICROWAVE FIELD; RYDBERG ALKALI-METAL ATOMS;

ALKALI METALS;

EID: 33646875486     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.053405     Document Type: Article

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