Resonance-assisted decay of nondispersive wave packets

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jul 28;97(4):043001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.043001. Epub 2006 Jul 25.

Abstract

We present a quantitative semiclassical theory for the decay of nondispersive electronic wave packets in driven, ionizing Rydberg systems. Statistically robust quantities are extracted combining resonance-assisted tunneling with subsequent transport across chaotic phase space and a final ionization step.