Abstract

By submitting a cloud of cold caesium atoms to a periodically pulsed standing wave, we experimentally realized a quantum system presenting a dynamic that is chaotic in the classical limit called the Kicked Rotor. Such a system presents a phenomenon called dynamical localization (DL). DL is the suppression of the classical chaotic energy growth by quantum interferences due to long range coherence in momentum space. After a breaktime, the quantum momentum distribution is frozen to a steady state and the energy is stuck to an asymptotic value [1].

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