Projectile coherence: The Van Cittert - Zernike theorem revisited. (July 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fabre, I; Navarrete, F; Sarkadi, L; Barrachina, R O
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Number 635(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-07
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/635/4/042003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Synopsis: We study the time evolution of an incoherent mixture of identical particles by solving the Liouville - von Neumann equation for the corresponding density matrix. We demonstrate the quantum mechanical equivalent of van Cittert - Zernike theorem, and apply these results to the quantitative analysis of the coherence of a beam of particles in atomic collisions.