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View SchemaSpontaneous emission of non-dispersive Rydberg wave packets
| Authors | Dominique Delande, Jakub Zakrzewski |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9802027 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9802027 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.466 |
Abstract
Non dispersive electronic Rydberg wave packets may be created in atoms illuminated by a microwave field of circular polarization. We discuss the spontaneous emission from such states and show that the elastic incoherent component (occuring at the frequency of the driving field) dominates the spectrum in the semiclassical limit, contrary to earlier predictions. We calculate the frequencies of single photon emissions and the associated rates in the "harmonic approximation", i.e. when the wave packet has approximately a Gaussian shape. The results agree well with exact quantum mechanical calculations, which validates the analytical approach.
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