Decoherence of cold atomic gases in magnetic micro-traps

Details Decoherence of cold atomic gases in magnetic micro-traps Decoherence of cold atomic gases in magnetic micro-traps

2003-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0305070v1

Phys. Rev. A 68, 043618 (2003).

Physics

Quantum Physics

15 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.043618

We derive a model to describe decoherence of atomic clouds in atom-chip traps taking the excited states of the trapping potential into account. We use this model to investigate decoherence for a single trapping well and for a pair of trapping wells that form the two arms of an atom interferometer. Including the discrete spectrum of the trapping potential gives rise to a decoherence mechanism with a decoherence rate $\Gamma$ that scales like $\Gamma \sim 1/r_0^4$ with the distance $r_0$ from the trap minimum to the wire.

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