Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Pub Date
2-1995
Publisher
American Physical Society
Volume
74
Issue
9
First Page
1538
Abstract
We report an experimental and theoretical study of the effect of bifurcations of closed classical orbits in continuum Stark spectra. Our findings provide a natural way to understand how the spectrum evolves from a simple sinusoidal modulation at positive energy to a quasidiscrete spectrum below the classical ionization limit. The experiment employs scaled-energy spectroscopy of lithium. The results provide the first experimental confirmation of a formulation of closed-orbit theory that provides a quantitative description of the behavior of the spectrum at a bifurcation.
Recommended Citation
Courtney, Michael; Jiao, Hong; Spellmeyer, Neal; Kleppner, Daniel; Gao, J.; and Delos, John B., Closed Orbit Bifurcations in Continuum Stark Spectra (1995). Physical Review Letters, 74(9), 1538-1541.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1538
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.1538
