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Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 3683–3686 (1996)

Measurement Induced Localization from Spontaneous Decay

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M. Holland1, S. Marksteiner1,2, P. Marte1,2, and P. Zoller1,2
1Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440
2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Received 13 February 1995; published in the issue dated 13 May 1996

We present a simulation method which localizes the atomic wave function each time a spontaneous photon is emitted. This allows a small set of basis states to be allocated dynamically to follow the atomic motion. We illustrate the application of this technique in a study of position jumps and quantum diffusion in the laser cooling of atoms.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3683
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3683
PACS:
42.50.-p, 03.65.Bz, 32.80.-t
 
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