Speaker
Dr
Hermann Uys
(National Laser Centre, CSIR)
Description
We investigate the decoherence of superpositions of hyperfine states of $^9$Be$^+$ ions due to spontaneous scattering of off-resonant light. We find that, contrary to conventional wisdom, elastic Rayleigh scattering can have majour contributions to decoherence when compared to the effect of inelastic Raman scattering.
Primary author
Dr
Hermann Uys
(National Laser Centre, CSIR)
Co-authors
Dr
A.P. van Devender
(National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Dr
C. Ospelkaus
(National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Dr
D. Meiser
(JILA, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Dr
J.J. Bollinger
(National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Dr
M.J. Biercuk
(School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
Dr
R. Ozeri
(Dept. of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
