Thermal breakdown of coherent backscattering: A case study of quantum duality

2005/12/31 by Christian Wickles, Cord A. Müller, Cord Mueller · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/epl/i2005-10527-x

published as Europhys. Lett. 74, 240-246 (2006) · published version with minor changes and an added figure

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Abstract

We investigate coherent backscattering of light by two harmonically trapped atoms in the light of quantitative quantum duality. Including recoil and Doppler shift close to an optical resonance, we calculate the interference visibility as well as the amount of which-path information, both for zero and finite temperature.

Citations

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