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Decoherence of Atomic Gases in Largely Detuned Laser Fields

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We study theoretically the decoherence of a gas of bosonic atoms induced by the interaction with a largely detuned laser beam. It is shown that for a standing laser beam decoherence coincides with the single-particle result. For a running laser beam many-particle effects lead to significant modifications.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0102012,
  title  = {Decoherence of Atomic Gases in Largely Detuned Laser Fields},
  author = {Karl-Peter Marzlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0102012},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 2 Figures, RevTex

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