Unusual decoherence in qubit measurements with a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Sokolovski, D ^a   Gurvitz, S A ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; DAMPING;

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; DECOHERENCE; DENSITY MATRICES; DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIALS; GAUSSIAN; INITIAL STATE; QUBIT MEASUREMENTS;

STEAM CONDENSERS;

EID: 63249105447     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.032106     Document Type: Article

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