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Decoherence-induced wave packet splitting

Young-Tak Chough, Hyunchul Nha, Sang Wook Kim, Sun-Hyun Youn, Kyungwon An

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0108005

Abstract

We provide an intuitive interpretation of the optical Stern-Gerlach effect (OSGE) in the dressed-state point of view. We also analyze the effect of atomic damping in an experiment on the OSGE. We show that the atomic damping also causes the wave packet splitting, in a non-mechanical fashion, as opposed to the coherent process that is mechanical.

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