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Phys. Rev. A 58, R3375–R3378 (1998)

Photodissociation in quantum chaotic systems: Random-matrix theory of cross-section fluctuations

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Yan V. Fyodorov1,* and Y. Alhassid2
1Fachbereich Physik, Universität-GH Essen, D-45117 Essen, Germany
2Center for Theoretical Physics, Sloane Physics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

Received 10 February 1998; revised 17 August 1998; published in the issue dated November 1998

Using the random matrix description of open quantum chaotic systems we calculate in closed form the universal autocorrelation function and the probability distribution of the total photodissociation cross section in the regime of quantum chaos.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.58.R3375
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.58.R3375
PACS:
33.80.Eh, 05.45.+b

*On leave from Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina 188350, Russia.