Hydrogen atoms under magnification: Direct observation of the nodal structure of stark states

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 2013, Pages

  Stodolna, A S ^a   Rouzee A ^a,b   Lepine F ^c   Cohen, S ^d   Robicheaux, F ^e   Gijsbertsen, A ^a   Jungmann, J H ^a   Bordas, C ^c   Vrakking, M J J ^a,b  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^b MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^e AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC ELECTRIC FIELD; DINGER EQUATION; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; HYDROGEN ATOMS; MICROSCOPIC PROPERTIES; NODAL STRUCTURES; STARK STATE; TIME DEPENDENCE;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ATOMS;

EID: 84878101822     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.213001     Document Type: Article

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