Verlet, J.R.R. and Stavros, V.G. and Minns, R.S. and Fielding, H.H. (2002) Controlling the angular momentum composition of a Rydberg electron wave packet. Physical Review Letters , 89 (26) p. 263004. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.263004.
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Abstract
Sequences of phase-locked laser pulses have been employed to control the orbital angular momentum character of an electron wave packet, which is initially created from a superposition of s and d Rydberg series. By an intelligent choice of phase, which depends on the excitation energy and the quantum defects, we are able to selectively pump down either all or a fraction of one or other angular momentum component, and by employing multichannel quantum-defect theory we are able to analyze the quantum-state distribution in detail.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Controlling the angular momentum composition of a Rydberg electron wave packet |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.263004 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.263004 |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Chemistry |
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