Decoherence of Bose-Einstein condensates in microtraps
- We discuss the impact of thermally excited near fields on the coherent expansion of a condensate in a miniaturized electromagnetic trap. Monte Carlo simulations are compared with a kinetic two-component theory and indicate that atom interactions can slow down decoherence. This is explained by a simple theory in terms of the condensate dynamic structure factor
| Author details: | Carsten HenkelORCiDGND, Simon A. Gardiner |
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| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2004 |
| Publication year: | 2004 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
| Source: | Physical review / A. - 69 (2004), 4, Art. No. 043602 |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik |
