Bound states of guided matter waves: An atom and a charged wire
- 1 May 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 45 (9) , 6468-6478
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.45.6468
Abstract
We argue that it is possible to bind a neutral atom in stable orbits around a wire charged by a time-varying sinusoidal voltage. Both classical and quantum-mechanical theories for this system are discussed, and a unified approach to the Kapitza picture of effective potentials associated with high-frequency fields is presented. It appears that cavities and waveguides for neutral-atomic-matter waves may be fashioned from these considerations.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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