Rydberg electron dynamics in external fields

所进行的研究涉及里德伯原子和分子。这样的系统在物理科学中占有特殊的地位：它们的简单性使它们成为发现新现象的工具，它们以异常清晰的方式展示了新现象。PI将研究三个主要的开放问题，这些问题的灵感来自于外场中里德伯态的动力学。利用经典和量子方法的对比，PI将研究原子和分子系统中传输的粘性障碍，里德堡电子的混沌散射，以及局域控制理论对里德堡态电离的操纵。这项研究很大程度上依赖于最近在原子和分子的里德伯态理论方面取得的相当大的进展，特别是在涉及科里奥利力的问题上，由于缺乏角动量守恒，降维模型失败了

The research undertaken is concerned with Rydberg atoms and molecules. Such systems occupy a special place in the physical sciences: their simplicity makes them vehicles for the discovery of new phenomena which they display with exceptional clarity. The PI will investigate three major open problems which were inspired by the dynamics of Rydberg states in external fields. Using and contrasting classical and quantum approaches, the PI will study sticky barriers to transport in atomic and molecular systems, chaotic scattering of Rydberg electrons, and the manipulation the ionization of Rydberg states by localized control theory. The research relies heavily on the onsiderable progress made recently in the theory of atomic and molecular Rydberg states perturbed by external fields especially in problems involving Coriolis forces, where reduced dimensionality models fail due to lack of angular momentum conservation