Wave Packet Echoes in the Motion of Trapped Atoms

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2000-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0008083v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3121 (2000)

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Quantum Physics

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3121

We experimentally demonstrate and systematically study the stimulated revival (echo) of motional wave packet oscillations. For this purpose, we prepare wave packets in an optical lattice by non-adiabatically shifting the potential and stimulate their reoccurence by a second shift after a variable time delay. This technique, analogous to spin echoes, enables one even in the presence of strong dephasing to determine the coherence time of the wave packets. We find that for strongly bound atoms it is comparable to the cooling time and much longer than the inverse of the photon scattering rate.

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