Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Motion of an Atomic Wave Packet in a Standing-Wave Cavity Field

Young-Tak Chough

Published Oct 24, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

We present an in-depth study on the behavior of an atomic wave packet which is placed in a standing wave cavity prepared in various states of light. We extract a simple classical oscillator model out of the dynamics of the quantum system. We quantitatively resolve the states of the spatially reorganized wave packet by the dressed state spatial probability distribution functions we developed. We also report a novel type of the “quantum collapse and revival” behavior of the Rabi nutation which is originated from the effect of the quantized atomic center-of-mass motion on the atomic internal motion.

DOI: 10.1143/jpsj.76.114301

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