Thermal limitation of far-field matter-wave interference
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We assess the effect of the heat radiation emitted by mesoscopic particles on their ability to show interference in a double slit arrangement. The analysis is based on a stationary, phase-space based description of matter wave interference in the presence of momentum-exchange mediated decoherence.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0604074,
title = {Thermal limitation of far-field matter-wave interference},
author = {Klaus Hornberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0604074},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures; published version