Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 51, Number 3, August I 2000
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Page(s) | 255 - 260 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00345-2 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Fractal stabilization of Wannier-Stark resonances
1
Fachbereich Physik, Universität Kaiserslautern - D-67653
Kaiserslautern, Germany
2
Kirensky Institute of Physics - 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Received:
16
February
2000
Accepted:
31
May
2000
The quasienergy spectrum of a Bloch electron affected by dc-ac fields is known to have a fractal structure as a function of the so-called electric matching ratio, which is the ratio of the ac field frequency and the Bloch frequency. This paper studies a manifestation of the fractal nature of the spectrum in the system “atom in a standing laser wave", which is a quantum-optical realization of a Bloch electron. It is shown that for an appropriate choice of the system parameters the atomic survival probability (a quantity measured in laboratory experiments) also develops a fractal structure as a function of the electric matching ratio. Numerical simulations under classically chaotic scattering conditions show good agreement with theoretical predictions based on random matrix theory.
PACS: 03.65.-w – Quantum mechanics / 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems / 73.20.Dx – Electron states in low-dimensional structures (superlattices, quantum well structures and multilayers)
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