Decoherence by spontaneous emission in atomic-momentum transfer experiments

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 5345-5348

  Goetsch, Peter ^a   Graham, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0001025691     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.5345     Document Type: Article

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