Photoionization of Rydberg hydrogen atom in a magnetic field

Abstract

The ionization of Rydberg hydrogen atom in a magnetic field has been studied on the basis of a semiclassical analysis of photoionization microscopy. The photoionization microscopy interference patterns of the photoelectron probability density distribution on a given detector plane are calculated at different scaled energies. We find that due to the interference effect of different types of electron trajectories arrived at a given point on the detector plane, oscillatory structures appear in the electron probability density distributions. The oscillatory structure of the interference pattern, which contains the spatial component of the electronic wave function, evolves sensitively on the scaled energy, through which we gain a deep understanding on the probability density distribution of the electron wave function. This study provides some reference values for the future experiment research on the photoionization microscopy of the Rydberg atom in the presence of magnetic field.