MULTIPLE TIME SCALES FOR RECURRENCES OF RYDBERG STATES

被引:19
作者
PERES, A
机构
[1] Department of Physics, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1993年 / 47卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.47.5196
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
An initially localized Rydberg wave packet, with DELTAn << n, spreads uniformly over its entire classical orbit within a time much larger than the classical period T(cl). However, it eventually reassembles, with a hierarchy of recurrence times: (n/3 + 1/2)T(cl), (n2/4 + 1/2)T(cl), etc. This phenomenon has no classical analog.
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页码:5196 / 5197
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