| Use of Bersons--Kulsh Form Factor of Short-Pulse Approximation in Rydberg-State Physics |
| R. Parzyñski and M. Sobczak Faculty of Physics, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznañ, Poland |
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| Received: September 10, 2002 |
| The experiments on high Rydberg states interacting with short electromagnetic pulses were hitherto mainly explained by using numerical integration of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in a restricted state basis. In this study we apply a different approach based on the Bersons--Kulsh analytical form factor of the short-pulse approximation. This analytical approach is shown to well reproduce the recent experimental results and those of numerical integration of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation both in the case of terahertz half-cycle pulses and optical many-cycle pulses. This fact enables a recommendation of the analytical Bersons--Kulsh form factor as an alternative and efficient method of quantum calculations of electromagnetically induced Rydberg state redistribution. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.103.13 PACS numbers: 32.80.Rm, 03.65.Ge |