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View SchemaCollinear helium under periodic driving: stabilization of the asymmetric stretch orbit
| Authors | Peter Schlagheck, Detlef Pingel, Peter Schmelcher |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0307112 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0307112 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.053410 |
Abstract
The collinear eZe configuration of helium, with the electrons on opposite sides of the nucleus, is studied in the presence of an external electromagnetic (laser or microwave) field. We show that the classically unstable "asymmetric stretch" orbit, on which doubly excited intrashell states of helium with maximum interelectronic angle are anchored, can be stabilized by means of a resonant driving where the frequency of the electromagnetic field equals the frequency of Kepler-like oscillations along the orbit. A static magnetic field, oriented parallel to the oscillating electric field of the driving, can be used to enforce the stability of the configuration with respect to deviations from collinearity. Quantum Floquet calculations within a collinear model of the driven two-electron atom reveal the existence of nondispersive wave packets localized on the stabilized asymmetric stretch orbit, for double excitations corresponding to principal quantum numbers of the order of N > 10.
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"abstract": "The collinear eZe configuration of helium, with the electrons on opposite\nsides of the nucleus, is studied in the presence of an external electromagnetic\n(laser or microwave) field. We show that the classically unstable \"asymmetric\nstretch\" orbit, on which doubly excited intrashell states of helium with\nmaximum interelectronic angle are anchored, can be stabilized by means of a\nresonant driving where the frequency of the electromagnetic field equals the\nfrequency of Kepler-like oscillations along the orbit. A static magnetic field,\noriented parallel to the oscillating electric field of the driving, can be used\nto enforce the stability of the configuration with respect to deviations from\ncollinearity. Quantum Floquet calculations within a collinear model of the\ndriven two-electron atom reveal the existence of nondispersive wave packets\nlocalized on the stabilized asymmetric stretch orbit, for double excitations\ncorresponding to principal quantum numbers of the order of N \u003e 10.",
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.68.053410",
"title": "Collinear helium under periodic driving: stabilization of the asymmetric stretch orbit",
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