Theory of decoherence in a matter wave Talbot-Lau interferometer

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 5 B, 2004, Pages

  Hornberger, Klaus ^a,b   Sipe, John E ^a,c   Arndt, Markus ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MEASUREMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

GRATING WALLS; MASTER EQUATIONS; MATTER WAVES; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETER;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 42749103588     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.053608     Document Type: Article

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