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Phys. Rev. A 79, 033417 (2009) [5 pages]

Creation of nondispersive Bohr-like wave packets

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J. J. Mestayer1, B. Wyker1, F. B. Dunning1, S. Yoshida2, C. O. Reinhold3,4, and J. Burgdörfer2,4
1Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA
2Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, EU
3Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6372, USA
4Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA

Received 17 December 2008; revised 10 February 2009; published 30 March 2009

We demonstrate the use of a periodic train of half-cycle pulses to maintain strongly-localized wave packets in very-high-n (n∼300) Rydberg atoms that travel in near-circular orbits about the nucleus. This motion can be followed for hundreds of orbital periods and mimics the original Bohr model of the hydrogen atom which envisioned an electron in circular classical orbit about the nucleus.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033417
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033417
PACS:
32.80.Rm, 32.80.Qk, 32.60.+i
 
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