R.R. Jones and M.B. Campbell
Abstract:A new technique for determining the quantum-state of electronic wavepackets from probability distribution measurements is presented. Specifically, a measurement of the fractional probability in each of a wavepacket's constituent eigenstates can be used in conjunction with a measurement of the wavepacket's time-dependent probability distribution to recover the complex amplitude of each constituent eigenstate. The method is demonstrated for radial wavepackets using previously measured time-dependent probability distributions in coordinate and momentum space. By exploiting delay imaging techniques it should be possible to retrieve the quantum-state of wavepackets in real time.
Status: Published, Phys. Rev. A 61, 013403 (1999). Download this Paper