Dynamical Revivals in Fermi Accelerator Model

Abstract

We investigate quantum revivals in the dynamics of an atom in an atomic Fermi accelerator. It is demonstrated that the external driving field influences the revival time significantly. Analytical expressions are presented which are based on semiclassical secular theory. These analytical results explain the dependence of the revival time on the characteristic parameters of the problem quantitatively in a simple way. They are in excellent agreement with numerical results.