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Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Apr 23;86(17):3747-50. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3747.

Statistical properties of inter-series mixing in helium: from integrability to chaos.

Physical review letters

R Püttner, B Grémaud, D Delande, M Domke, M Martins, A S Schlachter, G Kaindl

Affiliations

  1. Institut für Experimentalphysik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.

PMID: 11329314 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3747

Abstract

The photoionization spectrum of helium shows considerable complexity close to the double-ionization threshold. By analyzing the results from both our recent experiments and ab initio three- and one-dimensional calculations, we show that the statistical properties of the spacings between neighboring energy levels clearly display a transition towards quantum chaos.

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