Abstract
I review recent work on the evanescent wave atomic mirror [B. Segev, R. Cote, and M.G. Raizen, PRA 56, R3350 (1997); R. Cote, B. Segev, and M.G. Raizen, PRA 58, 3999 (1998)] in which we demonstrated that reflection of cold sodium atoms from such a mirror is expected to exhibit both quantum and quantum- electrodynamic (QED) effects. I then present a new phase-space wave-packet analysis of the time dependent reflection process. The time dependent distribution of cold atoms reflected from an atomic mirror can be used to probe the effective potential of the ‘mirror’.
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