Published October 2002 | Version v1
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Planck-scale dissipative effects in atom interferometry

Creators

  • 1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)
  • 2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)

Description

Atom interferometers can be used to study phenomena leading to irreversibility and dissipation, induced by the dynamics of fundamental objects (strings and branes) at a large mass scale. Using an effective, but physically consistent description in terms of a master equation of Lindblad form, the modifications of the interferometric pattern induced by the new phenomena are analyzed in detail. We find that present experimental devices can, in principle, provide stringent bounds on the new effects

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.043617;
arXiv
arXiv:quant-ph/0208164v1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
66
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043617-043617.6
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36044907
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ATOMS; DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STRING MODELS
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; FIELD THEORIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUARK MODEL

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Notes
(c) 2002 The American Physical Society