Creating and Transporting Trojan Wave Packets
Abstract
Nondispersive localized Trojan wave packets with ni∼305 moving in near-circular Bohr-like orbits are created and transported to localized near-circular Trojan states of higher n, nf∼600, by driving with a linearly polarized sinusoidal electric field whose period is slowly increased. The protocol is remarkably efficient with over 80% of the initial atoms being transferred to the higher n states, a result confirmed by classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulations.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2012
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhRvL.108d3001W
- Keywords:
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- 32.80.Rm;
- 32.80.Ee;
- 32.80.Qk;
- Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states;
- Rydberg states;
- Coherent control of atomic interactions with photons