MULTIPLE TIME SCALES FOR RECURRENCES OF RYDBERG STATES

Authors
PERES A
Citation
A. Peres, MULTIPLE TIME SCALES FOR RECURRENCES OF RYDBERG STATES, Physical review. A, 47(6), 1993, pp. 5196-5197
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
10502947
Volume
47
Issue
6
Year of publication
1993
Pages
5196 - 5197
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1993)47:6<5196:MTSFRO>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
An initially localized Rydberg wave packet, with DELTAn << n, spreads uniformly over its entire classical orbit within a time much larger th an the classical period T(cl). However, it eventually reassembles, wit h a hierarchy of recurrence times: (n/3 + 1/2)T(cl), (n2/4 + 1/2)T(cl) , etc. This phenomenon has no classical analog.