Phys. Rev. A 73, 033420 (2006) [6 pages]

Realization of the kicked atom at high scaled frequencies

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C. O. Reinhold^1,2, S. Yoshida³, J. Burgdörfer^3,2, W. Zhao⁴, J. J. Mestayer⁴, J. C. Lancaster⁴, and F. B. Dunning⁴
¹Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6372, USA
²Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA
³Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
⁴Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, MS 61, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA

Received 19 January 2006; published 24 March 2006

The response of quasi-one-dimensional very-high-n Rydberg atoms to a periodic train of short unidirectional electric-field pulses, termed half-cycle pulses (HCPs), is studied at high scaled frequencies. Pronounced nonmonotonic structure in the survival probability is observed as N, the number of HCPs in the train is increased, the survival probability actually increasing with N over certain ranges of N. This behavior is very sensitive to the polarization of the Rydberg states and is explained with the aid of classical simulations.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033420

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033420

PACS:

32.80.Rm, 32.80.Qk, 32.60.+i

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Phys. Rev. A 73, 033420 (2006) [6 pages]

Realization of the kicked atom at high scaled frequencies