Phys. Rev. A 55, 1550–1551 (1997)Comment on ``Saddle-point ionization and the Runge-Lenz invariant''Received 18 August 1995; published in the issue dated February 1997 Arguments made recently by Howard [Phys. Rev. A 51, 3934 (1995)] as to (i) the consequences of the nonexistence of an effective potential in the problem of a hydrogen atom in a circularly polarized microwave field, and (ii) the claimed advantages of his stability analysis as compared to methods based on harmonic expansion at an equilibrium point are examined. © 1996 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.55.1550
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.55.1550
PACS:
32.80.Rm, 42.50.Hz
See AlsoOriginal Article: J. E. Howard, Saddle-point ionization and the Runge-Lenz invariant, Phys. Rev. A 51, 3934 (1995). |
