Title :
Decoherence and dephasing of strongly driven colliding bose condensates
Author :
Katz, N. ; Ozeri, R. ; Rowen, E. ; Gershnabel, E. ; Davidson, Nigel
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Complex Syst., Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot
Abstract :
This paper studies decoherence and dephasing processes via two-photon Bragg pulses that induce strong (Rabi regime) oscillations of momentum excitations inside a 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Decoherence is manifested by collisions between the two counter-propagating BECs, producing a strong shell of atoms in the time-of-flight (TOF) image
Keywords :
Bose-Einstein condensation; atom-photon collisions; quantum optics; resonant states; rubidium; wave functions; 87Rb condensate; Bose-Einstein condensate; Rabi regime; Rb; colliding Bose condensates; counter-propagating BEC; decoherence; dephasing; momentum excitations; strong oscillations; time-of-flight image; two-photon Bragg pulses; wavefunction state;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-778-4