Rydberg Wave Packets are Squeezed States
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
We point out that Rydberg wave packets (and similar ``coherent" molecular packets) are, in general, squeezed states, rather than the more elementary coherent states. This observation allows a more intuitive understanding of their properties; e.g., their revivals.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9310343,
title = {Rydberg Wave Packets are Squeezed States},
author = {Michael Martin Nieto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9310343},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
7 pages of text plus one figure available in the literature, LA-UR 93-2804, to be published in Quantum Optics, LaTex