Quantum collapses and revivals in an anharmonic ion trap

C.F. Lo and K.M. Ng

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000, vol. 285, issue 3, 367-372

Abstract: In this communication we report our investigation of the time evolution of a single two-level ion in an anharmonic trap potential, while interacting with a single-mode laser light field. The anharmonicity of the trap potential is parametrized by the deformation parameter q. Such an anharmonic trap potential is expected to be closer to the experimental situation in comparison with a harmonic trap potential. Our analysis indicates that the quantum collapses and revivals of the system is drastically suppressed by the anharmonicity of the trap potential. Indeed, for large anharmonicities the collapse and revival pattern is completely wiped out.

Date: 2000
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378437100002491
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only. Journal offers the option of making the article available online on Science direct for a fee of $3,000

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:285:y:2000:i:3:p:367-372

DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(00)00249-1

Access Statistics for this article

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis

More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().