High-frequency Floquet-theory content of wave-packet dynamics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 3961-3973

  Wells, J C ^a   Simbotin, I ^a   Gavrila, M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

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EID: 4243804939     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.56.3961     Document Type: Article

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