CHINESE JOURNAL OF PHYSICS VOL. 39, NO. 4 AUGUST 2001




Atomic Evolution in a Driven Gravitational Cavity

Farhan Saif

Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University,

Islamabad 45320, Pakistan

(Received November 12, 2000)

We propagate an atomic wavepacket in a gravitational cavity which is modulated by means of an external periodic driving force. We show that in classical evolution it displays classical chaos, whereas in the quantum domain the wavepacket exhibits dynamical localization. Moreover, we also find dynamical revivals in the quantum evolution and prove that this is a generic characteristics of all driven systems.

PACS. 03.65.Bz - Foundations, theory of measurement, miscellaneous theories.
PACS. 05.45.+b - Theory and models of chaotic systems.
PACS. 72.15.Rn - Quantum localization.


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