Dynamics of Rydberg wave packets generated by half-cycle pulses
- Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6373 (United States)
- Department of Physics and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, 6100 South Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892 (United States)
Wave packets comprising a superposition of very-high-lying Rydberg states have been created using a half-cycle pulse (HCP). The properties of the wave packet are probed using a second HCP that is applied following a variable time delay. The second pulse ionizes a fraction of the atoms and the survival probability exhibits pronounced oscillations that are associated with the quasiperiodic evolution of the wave packet. Good agreement is found between the experimental data and the results of a classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation demonstrating that, for the times investigated, classical-quantum correspondence holds and quantum corrections are negligible. {copyright} {ital 1996 The American Physical Society.}
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-96OR22464
- OSTI ID:
- 288973
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 54; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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