CNS
Meeting
Monday 25 November 2002, 11:00 AM, W505 Howey
Semiclassical analysis of long wavelength, multiphoton processes: The Rydberg atom
Luz
Vela-Arevalo
The problem of multiphoton processes for intense, long wavelength
irradiation of atomic and molecular electrons is presented.
The recently developed method of quasi-adiabatic time evolution
is used to obtain a non-perturbative analysis. When applied to
the standard vector potential coupling, exact auxiliary equations
are obtained, which correspond to the electric dipole coupling.
A time-dependent solution is then achieved through application
of the Goepper-Mayer gauge.
In the talk, we will discuss the study of the Rydberg atom.
Numerical investigations of the auxiliary equations show
evidence of multiphoton transitions and allow us to obtain
the quantum Floquet states and quasienergies of the system.
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