Revivals of Rydberg Wave Packets
arXiv:quant-ph/9711073
Abstract
We examine the revival structure of Rydberg wave packets. These wave packets exhibit initial classical periodic motion followed by a sequence of collapse, fractional/full revivals, and fractional/full superrevivals. The effects of quantum defects on wave packets in alkali-metal atoms and a squeezed-state description of the initial wave packets are also described. We then examine the revival structure of Rydberg wave packets in the presence of an external electric field, i.e., the revival structure of Stark wave packets. These wave packets have energies that depend on two quantum numbers and exhibit new types of interference behavior.
Talk presented by Robert Bluhm at the VIII International Conference on Symmetry Methods in Physics, Dubna, Russia, July, 1997