Phys. Rev. A 66, 043617 (2002) [6 pages]Planck-scale dissipative effects in atom interferometryReceived 21 February 2002; published 25 October 2002 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. © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.043617
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.66.043617
PACS:
03.75.Dg, 03.65.Yz
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