We present phase coherence time measurements in quasi-one-dimensional Ag wires implanted with Ag+ ions with an energy of 100keV. The measurements have been carried out in the temperature range from 100mK up to 10K; this has to be compared with the Kondo temperature of iron in silver, i.e. TKAg/Fe≈4K, used in recent experiments on dephasing in Kondo systems\cite{mallet_prl_06,birge_prl_06}. We show that the phase coherence time is not affected by the implantation procedure, clearly proving that ion implantation process by itself \emph{does not lead to any extra dephasing} at low temperature.
@article{arxiv.0711.1810,
title = {Low temperature dephasing in irradiated metallic wires},
author = {T. Capron and Y. Niimi and Y. Baines and D. Mailly and F. -Y. Lo and A. Melnikov and A. D. Wieck and L. Saminadayar and C. Bäuerle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.1810},
year = {2008}
}