Document Type
Article
Version
Final Published Version
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
87
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
A short microwave pulse is used to ionize a lithium Rydberg wave packet launched from the core at a well-defined phase of the field. We observe a strong dependence on the relative phase between the motion of the wave packet and the oscillations of the field. This phase dependent ionization is also studied as a function of the relative frequency. Our experimental observations are in good qualitative agreement with a one-dimensional classical model of wave packet ionization.
Publisher's Statement
© 2001 by the American Physical Society. The publisher's version of the article can be found at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.043001
Citation
Michael W. Noel, Lung Ko, and T. F. Gallagher, "Microwave Ionization of an Atomic Electron Wave Packet," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 043001 (2001).
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.043001