Transient quantum beats, Rabi-oscillations and delay-time of modulated matter-waves

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06940v1
• Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:41:19 GMT
• Title: Transient quantum beats, Rabi-oscillations and delay-time of modulated matter-waves
• Authors: Jorge Villavicencio and Alberto Hern\'andez-Maldonado
• Abstract summary: We derive an exact general solution to Schr"odinger's equation for finite range potentials involving arbitrary initial quantum states. For a system with a bound state, the interplay between the virtual levels with the latter causes a textitquantum beat effect with a beating frequency.
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• Abstract: Transient phenomena of phase modulated cut-off wavepackets are explored by deriving an exact general solution to Schr\"odinger's equation for finite range potentials involving arbitrary initial quantum states. We show that the dynamical features of the probability density are governed by a virtual \textit{self-induced two-level system} with energies $E_{+}$, and $E_{-}$, due to the phase modulation of the initial state. The asymptotic probability density exhibits Rabi-oscillations characterized by a frequency $\Omega=(E_{+}-E_{-})/\hbar$, which are independent of the potential profile. It is also found that for a system with a bound state, the interplay between the virtual levels with the latter causes a \textit{quantum beat} effect with a beating frequency, $\Omega$. We also find a regime characterized by a \textit{time-diffraction} phenomenon that allows to measure unambiguously the delay-time, which can be described by an exact analytical formula. It is found that the delay-time agrees with the phase-time only for the case of strictly monochromatic waves.

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