Quantum Resonances and Ratchets in Free-Falling Frames

Details Quantum Resonances and Ratchets in Free-Falling Frames Quantum Resonances and Ratchets in Free-Falling Frames

2007-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/0706.3993v1

Physical Review E 76, 015201(R) (2007).

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

To appear in Physical Review E (Rapid Communications)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.015201

Quantum resonance (QR) is defined in the free-falling frame of the quantum kicked particle subjected to gravity. The general QR conditions are derived. They imply the rationality of the gravity parameter $\eta$, the kicking-period parameter $\tau /(2\pi)$, and the quasimomentum $\beta$. Exact results are obtained concerning wave-packet evolution for arbitrary periodic kicking potentials in the case of integer $\tau /(2\pi)$ (the main QRs). It is shown that a quantum ratchet generally arises in this case for resonant $\beta$. The noninertial nature of the free-falling frame affects the ratchet by effectively changing the kicking potential to one depending on $(\beta ,\eta)$. For a simple class of initial wave packets, it is explicitly shown that the ratchet characteristics are determined to a large extent by symmetry properties and by number-theoretical features of $\eta$.

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