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Observation of robust quantum resonance peaks in an atom optics kicked rotor with amplitude noise
Mark Sadgrove1, Andrew Hilliard, Terry Mullins
1Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
Abstract:
The effect of pulse train noise on the quantum resonance peaks of the atom optics kicked rotor is investigated experimentally. Quantum resonance peaks in the late time mean energy of the atoms are found to be surprisingly robust against all levels of noise applied to the kicking amplitude, while even small levels of noise on the kicking period lead to their destruction. The robustness to amplitude noise of the resonance peak and of the fall-off in mean energy to either side of this peak are explained in terms of the occurrence of stable, epsilon classical dynamics [Nonlinearity 16, 1381 (2003)]] around each quantum resonance.
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