Coherent control of rotational wave-packet dynamics via fractional revivals

• Published in: Physical review letters Vol. 92; no. 9; p. 093001
• Main Authors: Spanner, Michael, Shapiro, E A, Ivanov, Misha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 05.03.2004

We show (i) how the evolution of a wave packet created from an initial thermal ensemble can be controlled by manipulating interferences during the wave packet's fractional revivals and (ii) how the wave-packet evolution can be mapped onto the dynamics of a few-state system, where the number of...