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Takuya Kitagawa1, Susanne Pielawa, Adilet Imambekov
1Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Abstract:
We theoretically analyze Ramsey interference experiments in one-dimensional quasicondensates and obtain explicit expressions for the time evolution of full distribution functions of fringe contrast. We show that distribution functions contain unique signatures of the many-body mechanism of decoherence. We argue that Ramsey interference experiments provide a powerful tool for analyzing strongly correlated nature of 1D interacting systems.
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