The role of quasi-momentum in the resonant dynamics of the atom-optics kicked rotor

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/49/007MaRDI QIDQ5717840zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sandro Wimberger, Mark Sadgrove

Publication date 13 January 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0505143

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum chaos (81Q50) Quantum optics (81V80) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: We examine the effect of the initial atomic momentum distribution on the dynamics of the atom-optical realisation of the quantum kicked rotor. The atoms are kicked by a pulsed optical lattice, the periodicity of which implies that quasi-momentum is conserved in the transport problem. We study and compare experimentally and theoretically two resonant limits of the kicked rotor: in the vicinity of the quantum resonances and in the semiclassical limit of vanishing kicking period. It is found that for the same experimental distribution of quasi-momenta, significant deviations from the kicked rotor model are induced close to quantum resonance, while close to the classical resonance (i.e. for small kicking period) the effect of the quasi-momentum vanishes.

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