Testing spontaneous localization theories with matter-wave interferometry

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Nimmrichter, Stefan ^a   Hornberger, Klaus ^b,c   Haslinger, Philipp ^a   Arndt, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL; CONTINUOUS SPONTANEOUS LOCALIZATIONS; DECOHERENCE; LOCALIZATION THEORY; MATTER WAVES; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETER; TIME DOMAIN;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79960643856     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.043621     Document Type: Article

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