Diffraction of Rydberg atoms by laser light

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Item Type:	Article
Title:	Diffraction of Rydberg atoms by laser light
Language:	English
Abstract:	It is shown that semiclassical path representations provide a well-suited framework for the description of the diffraction of Rydberg atoms by laser light. They allow one to relate the momentum exchange between the atomic center-of-mass motion and the laser field directly to elementary laser-assisted collisions between the excited Rydberg electron and the ionic core. Thus besides a convenient calculational tool they provide also direct physical insight into the underlying internal dynamics of the Rydberg atoms.
Journal or Publication Title:	Physical Review Letters
Volume:	69
Number:	21
Classification DDC:	500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
Divisions:	Fachbereich Physik
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2008 09:23
Last Modified:	07 Dec 2012 11:54
Official URL:	http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v69/p3045
URN:	urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-10033
Additional Information:	Erratum: http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v70/i14/p2200_1
License:	Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Identification Number:	DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.69.3045
Additional Information:	Erratum: http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v70/i14/p2200_1
URI:	http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/1003
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