Two-center interferometry and decoherence effects

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Feagin, James M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTERFEROMETRY; PHONONS; PHOTONS;

ATOM INTERFEROMETRY; DECOHERENCE EFFECTS; TWO-CENTER INTERFEROMETRY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 33144486445     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.022108     Document Type: Article

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