Quantum Pendellösung in Atom Diffraction by a Light Grating
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annalen der Physik
- Vol. 503 (1-3) , 141-148
- https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.19915030113
Abstract
We calculate the Bragg scattering of a two‐level atom from a quantized standing‐wave light field. The granular nature of the radiation field is shown to produce collapse and revivals in the atom diffraction and to lead to a quantum version of the Pendellösung.Keywords
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