https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00199-0
Decay, interference, and chaos
How simple atoms mimic disorder
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
2
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
Corresponding author: a abu@mpipks-dresden.mpg.de
Received:
15
November
2002
Published online:
8
July
2003
We establish a close quantitative analogy between the excitation and ionization process of highly excited one electron Rydberg states under microwave driving and charge transport across disordered 1D lattices. Our results open a new arena for Anderson localization — a disorder induced effect — in a large class of perfectly deterministic, decaying atomic systems.
PACS: 32.80.Rm – Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states (e.g., Rydberg states) / 05.45.Mt – Quantum chaos; semiclassical methods / 72.15.Rn – Localization effects (Anderson or weak localization)
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2003
