Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Photoelectron spectra for an atom with one autoionizing level that interacts with a neighbor
A. Lukš, Vlasta Peřinová, Jan Peřina, J. Křepelka, W. Leoński
Abstract
We investigate two atoms coupled with a quantized field mode. Whereas one is the Jaynes-Cummings (JC) two-level atom, the other is an autoionizing system with two discrete levels and a continuum of states. In case interactions between the atoms do not occur, the periodic behavior of the JC atom contrasts with the autoionizing system. We ask whether or not a seesaw-like interaction between the atoms can change the behavior of the JC atom. We present photoelectron spectra dependent on the time for various initial states of the field mode.