arXiv:0905.0286

Suppression of collisional decoherence

Yoav Sagi, Ido Almog, Nir Davidson

Published May 3, 2009• 2 citations

Abstract

We employ a continuous dynamical decoupling scheme to suppress the decoherence induced by elastic collisions of cold atoms. Using a continuous echo pulse we achieve a thirty-fold increase in the coherence time of Rb87 atoms trapped in a dipole trap. Coherence times of more than 100ms are demonstrated for an ensemble with an optical depth of 120.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.0286

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