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Decay, interference, and chaos: How simple atoms mimic disorder

Andreas Krug, Sandro Wimberger, Andreas Buchleitner

physics.atom-pharXiv:physics/0212037

Abstract

We establish a close quantitative analogy between the excitation and ionization process of highly excited one electron Rydberg states under microwave driving and charge transport across disordered 1D lattices. Our results open a new arena for Anderson localization - a disorder induced effect - in a large class of perfectly deterministic, decaying atomic systems.

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