Rydberg atomic antenna in strongly driven multielectron atoms
We study the role of intermediate excitations of Rydberg states as an example of Kuchiev's "atomic antenna"in above-threshold ionization of xenon, in particular their effect on the coherence between the spin-orbit-split states of the ion. We focus on the case of a laser frequency close to resonant with the spin-orbit splitting, where a symmetry (parity) argument would preclude any coherence being
