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Rjabinina M. V., Melnikov L. A. Dynamics of probability amplitudes in hydrogen-like atoms under the action of strong variable electric field of electromagnetic wave accounting transitions to continuum. Izvestiya VUZ. Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, 2008, vol. 16, iss. 1, pp. 99-114. DOI: 10.18500/0869-6632-2008-16-1-99-114

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Dynamics of probability amplitudes in hydrogen-like atoms under the action of strong variable electric field of electromagnetic wave accounting transitions to continuum

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Rjabinina Marija Viktorovna, Saratov State University
Melnikov Leonid Arkadevich, Yuri Gagarin State Technical University of Saratov
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The dynamics of populations of 4s and 3p states in hydrogen atom is investigated under the action of ultra high laser single frequency linear-polarized pulse at one-, twoand three-photon resonance and at large detuning out of frame of perturbation theory and rotating wave approximation. It was shown the existence of low frequency modulation of optical oscillations,which frequency becomes zero at some values of laser field amplitude. For the transition 3s ↔ 2p the population dynamics of discrete states 3s and 2p is investigated, and also of the states in continuum which are bounded with the state 3s via optical transition. Coherent-like oscillations of the population of the states in continuum are demonstrated.

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27.12.2007
Accepted: 
27.12.2007
Published: 
29.02.2008
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