Correlations in atomic systems: Diagnosing coherent superpositions
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
While investigating quantum correlations in atomic systems, we note that single measurements contain information about these correlations. Using a simple model of measurement -- analogous to the one used in quantum optics -- we show how to extract higher order correlation functions from individual "phtotographs" of the atomic sample. As a possible application we apply the method to detect a subtle phase coherence in mesoscopic superpostitions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403553,
title = {Correlations in atomic systems: Diagnosing coherent superpositions},
author = {Radka Bach and Kazimierz Rzazewski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403553},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, provisionally accepted to Physical Review Letters