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Phys. Rev. A 56, 1839 - 1843 (1997)

Bifurcations in the hydrogen atom in the presence of a circularly polarized microwave field and a static magnetic field

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V. Lanchares
Departamento de Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de La Rioja, 26004 Logroño, Spain

M. Iñarrea and J. P. Salas
Area de Física Aplicada, Universidad de La Rioja, 26004 Logroño, Spain

Received 10 February 1997

In a classical model, the dynamics of the hydrogen atom subjected to a circularly polarized microwave field and a magnetic field is shown to belong to the family of so-called biparametric quadratic Hamiltonians. The energy-level structure is studied in terms of the parametric bifurcations.


©1997 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.1839
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.56.1839
PACS: 32.60.+i, 03.65.Sq, 02.90.+p

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