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Deviations from early--time quasilinear behaviour for the quantum kicked rotor near the classical limit

Mark Sadgrove, Terry Mullins, Scott Parkins, Rainer Leonhardt

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0409031

Abstract

We present experimental measurements of the mean energy for the atom optics kicked rotor after just two kicks. The energy is found to deviate from the quasi--linear value for small kicking periods. The observed deviation is explained by recent theoretical results which include the effect of a non--uniform initial momentum distribution, previously applied only to systems using much colder atoms than ours.

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