Tailoring very-high-n circular wave packets

被引：5

作者：

Reinhold, C. O. ^{[1
,2
]}

Yoshida, S. ^{[3
]}

Burgdoerfer, J. ^{[2
,3
]}

Mestayer, J. J. ^{[4
,5
]}

Wyker, B. ^{[4
,5
]}

Lancaster, J. C. ^{[4
,5
]}

Dunning, F. B. ^{[4
,5
]}

机构：

[1] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Div Phys, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA

[2] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA

[3] Vienna Univ Technol, Inst Theoret Phys, A-1040 Vienna, Austria

[4] Rice Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Houston, TX 77005 USA

[5] Rice Univ, Rice Quantum Inst, Houston, TX 77005 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2008年 / 78卷 / 06期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

atom-photon collisions; Rydberg states;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063413

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We describe a protocol to generate transiently localized circular wave packets in very-high-n Rydberg states. These are created from strongly polarized quasi-one-dimensional Rydberg states by applying a transverse pulsed electric field. The resulting wave packet becomes transiently localized as the result of focusing and travels in a nearly circular Bohr-like orbit around the nucleus for several orbital periods. The localization properties can be controlled by carefully choosing the shape of the field pulse, in particular, its rise and fall times. Remarkably, the wave packets exhibit classical revivals after the initial dephasing on time scales shorter than those expected for quantum revivals.

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