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View SchemaDecoherence in ion traps due to laser intensity and phase fluctuations
| Authors | S. Schneider, G. J. Milburn |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9710044 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9710044 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.3748 |
Abstract
We consider one source of decoherence for a single trapped ion due to intensity and phase fluctuations in the exciting laser pulses. For simplicity we assume that the stochastic processes involved are white noise processes, which enables us to give a simple master equation description of this source of decoherence. This master equation is averaged over the noise, and is sufficient to describe the results of experiments that probe the oscillations in the electronic populations as energy is exchanged between the internal and electronic motion. Our results are in good qualitative agreement with recent experiments and predict that the decoherence rate will depend on vibrational quantum number in different ways depending on which vibrational excitation sideband is used.
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