Acceleration of Material Waves in Fermi Accelerator
Figure 3
The above diagram of the phase space evolution of a classical ensemble of particles initially in a narrowly peaked Gaussian distribution originating from the area of phase space that supports accelerated trajectories. The initial distribution, centered at and with , is propagated for (a) and (b) for time . The numerical calculations correspond to Cesium atoms of mass bouncing off an atomic mirror with an intensity modulation of . The modulation frequencies extend to the megahertz range, and .