Transition from classical to quantum loss of light coherence
Pierre Lassègues, Mateus Antônio Fernandes Biscassi, Martial Morisse, A. Cidrim, Pablo Gabriel Santos Dias, Hodei Eneriz, R Teixeira, Robin Kaiser, Romain Bachelard, Mathilde Hugbart
Abstract
The authors study the loss of light coherence when scattered by a macroscopic atomic cloud of cold neutral atoms through intensity-intensity correlation measurements. They demonstrate experimentally and theoretically the transition between classical and quantum mechanisms regimes for the coherence loss.
Topics & Concepts
Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)PhysicsDegree of coherenceQuantumAtomic coherenceAtomic physicsQuantum opticsIntensity (physics)Quantum mechanicsCoherence timeOpticsLaserQuantum optics and atomic interactionsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum Information and Cryptography