Title :

Phase-space reconstruction of an atomic chaotic system

Author(s) :

L. D. de Souza Cavalcante, Hugo [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications [CERLA]
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 [PhLAM]
Renato de Carvalho, Carlos [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications [CERLA]
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 [PhLAM]
Garreau, Jean-Claude [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Lasers et Applications [CERLA]
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 [PhLAM]

Journal title :

Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics

Pages :

033814

Publisher :

American Physical Society

Publication date :

2005

ISSN :

1050-2947

English keyword(s) :

kicked rotor
phase-space
chaotic dynamics
quantum chaos
laser cooling

HAL domain(s) :

Physique [physics]/Physique Quantique [quant-ph]
Physique [physics]/Physique [physics]/Physique Atomique [physics.atom-ph]
Science non linéaire [physics]/Dynamique Chaotique [nlin.CD]

English abstract : [en]

We consider the dynamics of a single atom submitted to periodic pulses of a far-detuned standing wave generated by a high-finesse optical cavity, which is an atomic version of the well-known ``kicked rotor" We show that ...
Show more >We consider the dynamics of a single atom submitted to periodic pulses of a far-detuned standing wave generated by a high-finesse optical cavity, which is an atomic version of the well-known ``kicked rotor" We show that the classical phase-space map can be ``reconstructed" by monitoring the transmission of the cavity. We also studied the effect of spontaneous emission on the reconstruction, and put limits to the maximum acceptable spontaneous emission rate.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

5 figures, 6 pages

Collections :

• Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules (PhLAM) - UMR 8523

Source :

Harvested from HAL