Reply to 'Comment on 'Quantum time-of-flight distribution for cold trapped atoms''

Journal Article · Fri Feb 15 04:00:00 EST 2008 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.77.026102· OSTI ID:21140586

Ali, Md Manirul ^[1]; Home, Dipankar; Pan, Alok K ^[2]; Majumdar, A S ^[3]

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1. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113 (India)
2. Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Calcutta 700009 (India)
3. S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Salt Lake, Calcutta 700098 (India)

In their comment Gomes et al. [Phys. Rev. A 77, 026101 (2008)] have questioned the possibility of empirically testable differences existing between the semiclassical time of flight distribution for cold trapped atoms and a quantum distribution discussed by us recently [Ali et al., Phys. Rev. A 75, 042110 (2007).]. We argue that their criticism is based on a semiclassical treatment having restricted applicability for a particular trapping potential. Their claim does not preclude, in general, the possibility of differences between the semiclassical calculations and fully quantum results for the arrival time distribution of freely falling atoms.

• OSTI ID: 21140586
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 77; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
ANNUAL LIMIT OF INTAKE
ATOMS
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
DISTRIBUTION
POTENTIALS
SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION
TEMPERATURE RANGE 0000-0013 K
TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD
TRAPPING