Photodetachment Cross Section of H- in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields. II. Quantum Formulas and Their Reduction to the Result of the Closed-Orbit Theory

Authors

Aaron D. Peters, William & Mary
John B. Delos, William & MaryFollow

Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Physics

Journal Title

Physical Review A

Pub Date

4-1993

Publisher

American Physical Society

Volume

47

Issue

4

First Page

3036

Abstract

In this, the second of two papers, we derive general quantum formulas for the photodetachment cross section for H− in perpendicular electric and magnetic fields. The results are valid for any polarization and can be reduced to the semiclassical results of the first paper [A. D. Peters and J. B. Delos, Phys. Rev. A 47, 3020 (1993)]: a smooth background plus oscillatory terms. This connection between the quantum and semiclassical results is made using a stationary-phase approximation and it is shown that each stationary-phase point corresponds to a closed orbit.

Recommended Citation

Peters, Aaron D. and Delos, John B., Photodetachment Cross Section of H- in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields. II. Quantum Formulas and Their Reduction to the Result of the Closed-Orbit Theory (1993). Physical Review A, 47(4), 3036-3043.
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.47.3036

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.47.3036