Investigation of Coherence and its Decay Mechanisms in an Optical Lattice

In this thesis, I report on experiments with cold 85Rb atoms in a far-detuned one-dimensional optical lattice. These experiments are focused on creating efficient coupling between the quantized vibrational states of atoms in the optical lattice, on controlling and maintaining coherence between the v...

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Main Author: Maneshi, Samansa
Other Authors: Steinberg, Aephraim
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27592