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View SchemaSymmetry breaking in crossed magnetic and electric fields
| Authors | C. Neumann, R. Ubert, S. Freund, E. Floethmann, B. Sheehy, K. H. Welge, M. R. Haggerty, J. B. Delos |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/9701014 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9701014 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4705 |
Abstract
We present the first observations of cylindrical symmetry breaking in highly excited diamagnetic hydrogen with a small crossed electric field, and we give a semiclassical interpretation of this effect. As the small perpendicular electric field is added, the recurrence strengths of closed orbits decrease smoothly to a minimum, and revive again. This phenomenon, caused by interference among the electron waves that return to the nucleus, can be computed from the azimuthal dependence of the classical closed orbits.
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