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Propagation, breathing and transition of matter-wave packet trains

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We find a set of new exact solutions of a quantum harmonic oscillator, which describes some wave-packet trains with average energy being proportional to both the quantum level and classical energy of the oscillator. Center of the wave-packet trains may oscillate like a classical harmonic oscillator of frequency ω\omega. Width and highness of the trains may change simultaneously with frequency 2ω2 \omega as an array of breathers. Under some perturbations the wave-packet trains could transit between the states of different quantum numbers. We demonstrate analytically and numerically that the wave-packet trains can be strictly fitted to the matter-wave soliton trains observed by Strecher et al. and reported in Nature 417, 150(2002). When the wave-packets breathe with greater amplitudes, they show periodic collapse and revival of the matter-wave.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0301122,
  title  = {Propagation, breathing and transition of matter-wave packet trains},
  author = {Wenhua Hai and Chaohong Lee and Guishu Chong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0301122},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 7 figures