Dynamical stability of quantum ``chaotic'' motion in a hydrogen atom
Abstract
A simple numerical reversibility test which proves useful in exposing the chaotic nature of classical dynamical systems is applied to the quantum model of a hydrogen atom in a microwave field. The remarkable result is that, in spite of some apparent chaotic features, the quantum motion proves to be perfectly stable in contrast to the high instability of the classical chaotic motion.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.2437
- Bibcode:
- 1986PhRvL..56.2437C
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Mobilities;
- Chaos;
- Dynamic Stability;
- Dynamical Systems;
- Hydrogen Atoms;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Gas Ionization;
- Liouville Equations;
- Probability Theory;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics;
- 05.45.+b;
- 03.65.-w;
- 05.30.-d;
- Quantum mechanics;
- Quantum statistical mechanics