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Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1203 - 1206 (1998)

Observation of Noise and Dissipation Effects on Dynamical Localization
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B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen
Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1081

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Featured in Phys. Rev. Focus Received 17 March 1998

We observe the effects of noise and dissipation on dynamical localization. Our system consists of cold cesium atoms in a pulsed standing wave of light, and is an experimental realization of the δ-kicked rotor. We compare the effects of amplitude noise with those of spontaneous scattering. The experimental signature in both cases is an increased growth in energy, with qualitatively similar momentum distributions.


©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v81/p1203
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1203
PACS: 32.80.Pj, 42.50.Vk

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Erratum: B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen, Erratum: Observation of Noise and Dissipation Effects on Dynamical Localization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1203 (1998)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 241 (1999)

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