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View SchemaThe non dissipative damping of the Rabi oscillations as a "which-path" information
| Authors | M. Tumminello, A. Vaglica, G. Vetri |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0501181 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501181 |
| DOI | 10.1209/epl/i2003-10194-y |
| Journal | Europhys. Lett., 65 (6), pp. 785-790 (2004) |
Abstract
Rabi oscillations may be viewed as an interference phenomenon due to a coherent superposition of different quantum paths, like in the Young's two-slit experiment. The inclusion of the atomic external variables causes a non dissipative damping of the Rabi oscillations. More generally, the atomic translational dynamics induces damping in the correlation functions which describe non classical behaviors of the field and internal atomic variables, leading to the separability of these two subsystems. We discuss on the possibility of interpreting this intrinsic decoherence as a "which-way" information effect and we apply to this case a quantitative analysis of the complementarity relation as introduced by Englert [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{77}, 2154 (1996)].
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