Dynamics of an atomic wave packet in a standing-wave cavity field: A cavity-assisted single-atom detection

abstract

• The dynamics of an atomic wave packet in a single-mode, standing-wave cavity field was studied. It was shown that, since the atom-field coupling strength is determined by the overlap integral of the atomic wave packet and the field mode function, the effect of the wave-packet spreading via the momentum exchange process has a significant effect on the detection efficiency. The physical origin of the matter wave-packet splitting on a node of a quantum field was explained from the viewpoint of the dressed-state picture.

authors

• Nha, Hyunchul

published proceedings

• PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

• Chough, Y. T., Youn, S. H., Nha, H., Kim, S. W., & An, K.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Chough, YT||Youn, SH||Nha, H||Kim, SW||An, K

publication date

• February 2002

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  Journal

keywords

• 51 Physical Sciences
• 5102 Atomic, Molecular And Optical Physics
• 5108 Quantum Physics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.023810

start page

• 023810

end page

• 10

volume

• 65

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physreva.65.023810