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Photoabsorption spectra of the diamagnetic hydrogen atom in the transition regime to chaos: closed orbit theory with bifurcating orbits

Tomaž Fabčič1, Jörg Main1, Thomas Bartsch2 and Günter Wunner1

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With increasing energy the diamagnetic hydrogen atom undergoes a transition from regular to chaotic classical dynamics, and the closed orbits pass through various cascades of bifurcations. Closed orbit theory allows for the semiclassical calculation of photoabsorption spectra of the diamagnetic hydrogen atom. However, at the bifurcations the closed orbit contributions diverge. The singularities can be removed with the help of uniform semiclassical approximations which are constructed over a wide energy range for different types of codimension one and two catastrophes. Using the uniform approximations and applying the high-resolution harmonic inversion method we calculate fully resolved semiclassical photoabsorption spectra, i.e., individual eigenenergies and transition matrix elements at laboratory magnetic field strengths, and compare them with the results of exact quantum calculations.


PACS

32.80.-t Photoionization and excitation

05.45.-a Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems

32.70.Cs Oscillator strengths, lifetimes, transition moments

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 2 (28 January 2005)

Received 13 July 2004

Published 5 January 2005



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