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Symmetry Breaking in Crossed Magnetic and Electric Fields
Physical Review Letters
  • C. Neumann
  • R. Ubert
  • S. Freund
  • et al., true
  • John B. Delos, William & Mary
Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Pub Date
6-1-1997
Publisher
American Physical Society
Abstract

We present the first observations of cylindrical symmetry breaking in highly excited diamagnetic hydrogen with a small crossed electric field, and we give a semiclassical interpretation of this effect. As the small perpendicular electric field is added, the recurrence strengths of closed orbits decrease smoothly to a minimum, and revive again. This phenomenon, caused by interference among the electron waves that return to the nucleus, can be computed from the azimuthal dependence of the classical closed orbits.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4705
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Citation Information
C. Neumann, R. Ubert, S. Freund, et al., et al.. "Symmetry Breaking in Crossed Magnetic and Electric Fields" Physical Review Letters Vol. 78 Iss. 25 (1997) p. 4705 - 4708
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/john-delos/115/