Collisional decoherence observed in matter wave interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Hornberger, Klaus ^a   Uttenthaler, Stefan ^a   Brezger, Björn ^a   Hackermüller, Lucia ^a   Arndt, Markus ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GASES; INTERFEROMETRY; IONIZATION; MOLECULES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION; VACUUM;

BROGLIE WAVE; COLLISIONAL DECOHERENCE; MATTER WAVE INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SPATIAL COHERENCE;

FULLERENES;

EID: 0038541607     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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