Rabi oscillations may be viewed as an interference phenomenon due to a coherent superposition of different quantum paths, as in 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., 77 (1996) 2154)
TUMMINELLO M, VAGLICA A, VETRI G (2004). The non-dissipative damping of the Rabi oscillations as a which-path information. EUROPHYSICS LETTERS, 65, 785-790 [10.1209/epl/i2003-10194-y].
The non-dissipative damping of the Rabi oscillations as a which-path information
TUMMINELLO, Michele;VAGLICA, Aloisio;VETRI, Giuseppa Antonia
2004-01-01
Abstract
Rabi oscillations may be viewed as an interference phenomenon due to a coherent superposition of different quantum paths, as in 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., 77 (1996) 2154)
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