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Phys. Rev. A 56, R2503–R2506 (1997)

Detecting classical bifurcations in atoms from experimental data

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Marcus W. Beims
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, 91501-970 Porto Alegre, Brazil

Received 20 June 1997; published in the issue dated October 1997

This Rapid Communication proposes an experiment with Rydberg atoms resolved simultaneously in energy and time. The occurrence of classical bifurcations can be detected directly from experimental data and, therefore, information about the nonintegrability of classical equations of motion can be obtained. Results for the hydrogen atom subjected to a static uniform magnetic field are presented and discussed in detail.

© 1997 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.R2503
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.56.R2503
PACS:
32.60.+i, 32.80.Rm, 03.65.Sq
 
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