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Recent ion-atom and ion-surface experimental and theoretical studies involving quantum mechanical phase coherence phenomena are reviewed. The coherence effects are manifested in the experiments described here as energy-dependent oscillatory structure in charge or excited state yields and in one case by the degree of ellipticity of emitted radiation. In each case, the physical mechanism may be simply formulated in terms of a two-step model involving (a) the coherent population of two or more states and (b) the differential phase evolution of the states with time.
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Tolk, N., Kraus, J. (1980). Quantum Mechanical Phase Coherence and Polarization in Low-Energy Ion-Atom and Ion-Surface Collisions. In: Kleinpoppen, H., Williams, J.F. (eds) Coherence and Correlation in Atomic Collisions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2997-8_43
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