TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantumlike dynamics of classical particles in ponderomotive potentials
AU - Dodin, I. Y.
AU - Fisch, N. J.
PY - 2005/9/9
Y1 - 2005/9/9
N2 - The average dynamics of a classical particle under the action of a high-frequency radiation resembles quantum particle motion in a conservative field with an effective de Broglie wavelength λ equal to the particle average displacement on the oscillation period. In a quasiclassical field, with a spatial scale large compared to λ, the guiding-center motion is adiabatic. Otherwise, a particle exhibits quantized eigenstates in ponderomotive potential wells, tunnels through "classically forbidden" regions, and experiences stochastic reflection from attractive potentials.
AB - The average dynamics of a classical particle under the action of a high-frequency radiation resembles quantum particle motion in a conservative field with an effective de Broglie wavelength λ equal to the particle average displacement on the oscillation period. In a quasiclassical field, with a spatial scale large compared to λ, the guiding-center motion is adiabatic. Otherwise, a particle exhibits quantized eigenstates in ponderomotive potential wells, tunnels through "classically forbidden" regions, and experiences stochastic reflection from attractive potentials.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.115001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.115001
M3 - Article
C2 - 16197011
AN - SCOPUS:27144513266
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 95
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 11
M1 - 115001
ER -