Theory of decoherence in a matter wave Talbot-Lau interferometer
- Author(s)
- Klaus Hornberger, John, E Sipe, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
The theory of decoherence in a matter wave Talbot-Lau interferometer was analyzed. It was observed that the loss of interference contrast could be calculated using a Wigner description of the stationary beam. It was also observed that the formulation includes the decohering coupling to the environment and the coherent interaction with the grating walls. The realistic microscopic descriptions of the experimentally relevant interactions were developed and showed that the treatment was equivalent to solving the corresponding master equation in paraxial approximation.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- University of Toronto
- Journal
- Physical Review A
- Volume
- 70
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.053608
- Publication date
- 2004
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/theory-of-decoherence-in-a-matter-wave-talbotlau-interferometer(b2123837-3ea6-407c-8379-b41fbdbf6311).html