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Decoherence of Bose-Einstein condensates in microtraps

Soft Condensed Matter 2016-08-31 v2

Abstract

We discuss the impact of thermally excited near fields on the coherent expansion of a condensate in a miniaturized electromagnetic trap. Monte Carlo simulations are compared with a kinetic two-component theory and indicate that atom interactions can slow down decoherence. This is explained by a simple theory in terms of the condensate dynamic structure factor.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212415,
  title  = {Decoherence of Bose-Einstein condensates in microtraps},
  author = {Carsten Henkel and Simon A. Gardiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212415},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures

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