Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-06-02
Physical Review Letters 101, no. 22, 220404 (2008)
Physics
Quantum Physics
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Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.220404
We describe families of potentials which act as approximate cloaks for matter waves, i.e., for solutions of the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation at energy $E$, with applications to the design of ion traps. These are derived from perfect cloaks for the conductivity and Helmholtz equations, by a procedure we refer to as isotropic transformation optics. If $W$ is a potential which is surrounded by a sequence $\{V_n^E\}_{n=1}^\infty$ of approximate cloaks, then for generic $E$, asymptotically in $n$ (i) $W$ is both undetectable and unaltered by matter waves originating externally to the cloak; and (ii) the combined potential $W+V_n^E$ does not perturb waves outside the cloak. On the other hand, for $E$ near a discrete set of energies, cloaking {\it per se} fails and the approximate cloaks support wave functions concentrated, or {\it almost trapped}, inside the cloaked region and negligible outside. Applications include ion traps, almost invisible to matter waves or customizable to support almost trapped states of arbitrary multiplicity. Possible uses include simulation of abstract quantum systems, magnetically tunable quantum beam switches, and illusions of singular magnetic fields.
Greenleaf Allan
Kurylev Yaroslav
Lassas Matti
Uhlmann Gunther
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