Phys. Rev. A 78, 063413 (2008) [9 pages]Tailoring very-high- n circular wave packetsReceived 11 September 2008; published 12 December 2008 We describe a protocol to generate transiently localized circular wave packets in very-high-n Rydberg states. These are created from strongly polarized quasi-one-dimensional Rydberg states by applying a transverse pulsed electric field. The resulting wave packet becomes transiently localized as the result of focusing and travels in a nearly circular Bohr-like orbit around the nucleus for several orbital periods. The localization properties can be controlled by carefully choosing the shape of the field pulse, in particular, its rise and fall times. Remarkably, the wave packets exhibit classical revivals after the initial dephasing on time scales shorter than those expected for quantum revivals. © 2008 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063413
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.063413
PACS:
32.80.Rm, 32.80.Qk, 32.60.+i
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