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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Transporting near-circular Bohr-like wave packets using chirped sine waves

B. Wyker, S Ye, F. B. Dunning, S. Yoshida, Carlos O Reinhold, Joachim Burgdörfer

Published Nov 5, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

Protocols for driving localized high- n ( n ~300) wave packets in near-circular Bohr-like orbits to higher n states using chirped sine waves are described.
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/388/3/032002

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