Engineering Very-High-n Polarized Rydberg States Using Tailored Half-Cycle-Pulse Sequences
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892 (United States)
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6372 (United States)
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, A1040 Vienna (Austria)
We show that strongly polarized very-high-n (n{approx}600) potassium Rydberg atoms can be produced by manipulating lower-n (n{approx}350) polarized atoms using a tailored sequence of ultrashort half-cycle pulses (HCPs). The protocol for this involves first a weak HCP that generates transient phase-space localization whereupon a second large HCP of opposite polarity excites the electron to a broad distribution of highly elongated states. This distribution is then refocused by a short periodic train of HCPs using the properties of (un)stable manifolds near fixed points in phase space.
- OSTI ID:
- 20696569
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 16; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.163007; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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