Abstract
Atom optics has proven to be a fruitful testbed for the experimental study of quantum dynamics in classically chaotic systems. Previous work in our group1 has focused on a regime where the classical phase space is strongly chaotic, so that any stable phase-space structures are small, and the atomic phase-space distribution is broad, so that the dynamics are averaged over the features in phase space. However, the quantum behavior in a mixed classical phase space, where both stable and chaotic regions are present, remains an interesting and challenging subject, with much left to understand.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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