2000/12/31 by Carsten Henkel, C. Henkel · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Mathematical physics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum decoherence #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #Spatial coherence #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s1296-2147(01)01195-7
published in Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series IV - Physics-Astrophysics 2(4), 573-580 (Elsevier BV) · Minor typos corrected. Proceedings of the `Euroconference on Atom Optics and Interferometry' (Cargese, France 26-29 july 2000). Accepted for publication in C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Serie IV, 11 pages
arxiv created 2001/04/18 · openalex publication_date 2001/06/01 · openalex created_date 2020/07/02 · arxiv updated 2021/08/06 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss the transport of matter waves in low-dimensional waveguides. Due to scattering from uncontrollable noise fields, the spatial coherence gets reduced and eventually lost. We develop a description of this decoherence process in terms of transport equations for the atomic Wigner function. We outline its derivation and discuss the special case of white noise where an analytical solution can be found.