Creating and probing electronic wave packets using half-cycle pulses
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Physics Department, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901 (United States)
Ultrashort, nearly unipolar electric field pulses are used to produce novel dynamic states in Rydberg atoms. A single 500 fsec field pulse redistributes essentially all of the population from a single stationary Rydberg state to hundreds of different final states. The dynamic evolution of the nonstationary wave packet is monitored using a second, time-delayed pulse. The time-dependent momentum-space probability distribution of the wave packet can be retrieved experimentally using a classical impulse approximation. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- OSTI ID:
- 285717
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 76; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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