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Phys. Rev. A 57, 2239 - 2242 (1998)

Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a hydrogen atom in a radiation field through electron self-interference

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Maciej Kalinski
Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Received 3 March 1997

We study the influence of a weak magnetic field on time evolution of a quantum state that is a coherent superposition of two counter-rotating Trojan wave packets in a linearly polarized electromagnetic field. We demonstrate that both the interference pattern of the electron probability density and differential cross section for half-cycle pulse ionization exhibit periodic modulation as a function of magnetic flux cutting the plane of packet motion. The shift is proportional to the magnetic flux in a way characteristic for the Aharonov-Bohm effect.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.2239
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.2239
PACS: 32.80.Rm, 42.50.Hz, 03.65.Bz, 03.75.Dg

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