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Planck-scale dissipative effects in atom interferometry

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Atom interferometers can be used to study phenomena leading to irreversibility and dissipation, induced by the dynamics of fundamental objects (strings and branes) at a large mass scale. Using an effective, but physically consistent description in terms of a master equation of Lindblad form, the modifications of the interferometric pattern induced by the new phenomena are analyzed in detail. We find that present experimental devices can, in principle, provide stringent bounds on the new effects.

Source: Physical Review A

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.66.043617

Authors: F. Benatti, R. Floreanini

Institutions: University of Trieste, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste

Language: English

Topic: Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2014780332

FWCI: 0.622

Cites: 51

Cited by: 6

Related to: 10