Revivals of wave packets: General theory and application to Rydberg clusters

Journal Article · Thu Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1996 · Physical Review A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.54.1154· OSTI ID:286603

Knospe, O; Schmidt, R ^[1]

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1. Technische Universitaet Dresden, Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, 01062 Dresden (Germany)

A universal approach is developed to study revivals of wave packets made of bound states with an {ital arbitrary} spectrum {ital E}{sub {ital n}} exhibiting hierarchical time scales. An analytic expression in form of a recursion formula is derived, which allows for a given wave packet the prediction of all revival times in {ital any} time scale. The theory is applied to metallic Rydberg clusters, i.e., two oppositely charged metallic clusters in a bound state with high angular momentum, taking into account their mutual polarization connected with a complicated {ital n} dependence of the spectrum {ital E}{sub {ital n}}. The theoretical predictions are compared with numerical results using a stroboscopic picture of the autocorrelation function. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}

• OSTI ID: 286603
• Journal Information: Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 54; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

66 PHYSICS
ATOMIC CLUSTERS
BOUND STATES
ENERGY SPECTRA
POLARIZATION
RECURSION RELATIONS
RYDBERG STATES
WAVE PACKETS