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Laser Physics

Optical Tunneling and a Classical Kramers-Henneberger Atom.

Ruben V. Karapetyan

Published Jan 1, 1997• 0 citations
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The second-order perturbation theory in the framework of the Kramers-Henneberger oscillating frame representation of the Hamiltonian [H. A. Kramers, Quantum Mechanics (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1956); W. C. Henneberger, Phys. Rev. Lett. 21, 838 (1968)] is used to study the tunneling process in a periodically driven double-well potential. The eigenstates of the Floquet Hamiltonian are efficiently approximated when a field frequency is larger than a classical frequency of the time-averaged Hamiltonian. The conditions for coherent enhancement and suppression of tunneling are obtained when the standard perturbation theory fails. It is shown that the enhancement and suppression of tunneling is due to field-induced coupling between states of a one-period averaged effective potential.