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Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 043001 (2012) [5 pages]

Creating and Transporting Trojan Wave Packets

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B. Wyker1, S. Ye1, 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, 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 14 September 2011; published 24 January 2012

Nondispersive localized Trojan wave packets with ni∼305 moving in near-circular Bohr-like orbits are created and transported to localized near-circular Trojan states of higher n, nf∼600, by driving with a linearly polarized sinusoidal electric field whose period is slowly increased. The protocol is remarkably efficient with over 80% of the initial atoms being transferred to the higher n states, a result confirmed by classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulations.

© 2012 American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.043001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.043001
PACS:
32.80.Rm, 32.80.Ee, 32.80.Qk
 
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