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View SchemaLight transport in cold atoms and thermal decoherence
| Authors | Guillaume Labeyrie, Dominique Delande, Robin Kaiser, Christian Miniatura |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0603153 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603153 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.013004 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters 97 (07/07/2006) 013004 |
Abstract
By using the coherent backscattering interference effect, we investigate experimentally and theoretically how coherent transport of light inside a cold atomic vapour is affected by the residual motion of atomic scatterers. As the temperature of the atomic cloud increases, the interference contrast dramatically decreases emphazising the role of motion-induced decoherence for resonant scatterers even in the sub-Doppler regime of temperature. We derive analytical expressions for the corresponding coherence time.
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