Ballistic and Localized Transport for the Atom Optics Kicked Rotor in the Limit of a Vanishing Kicking Period

2005/05/04 by Mark Sadgrove, Sandro Wimberger, A. S. Parkins +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.174103

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 174103 (2005) · 4 pages, 4 figures

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Abstract

We present mean energy measurements for the atom optics kicked rotor as the kicking period tends to zero. A narrow resonance is observed marked by quadratic energy growth, in parallel with a complete freezing of the energy absorption away from the resonance peak. Both phenomena are explained by classical means, taking proper account of the atoms' initial momentum distribution.

Citations

• Quantum resonances and decoherence for -kicked atoms
• Classical Scaling Theory of Quantum Resonances

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