Matter-wave decoherence due to a gas environment in an atom interferometer

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2005, Pages

  Uys, Hermann ^a   Perreault, John D ^a   Cronin, Alexander D ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM BEAM INTERFEROMETER; ATOM SCATTERING; PHOTON SCATTERING;

COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTERFEROMETERS; PHOTONS;

GAS DYNAMICS;

EID: 28844491385     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.150403     Document Type: Article

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