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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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O operador de Wigner aplicado a colisões de mudança de estrutura fina entre átomos alcalinos no regime frio / The Wigner operator applied to fine-structure collisions between alkaline cold atoms

Helena Carolina Braga 22 March 2002 (has links)
Neste trabalho abordamos os processos de perdas colisionais por mudança de estrutura fina e por escape radiativo. Estes processos são importantes por serem os principais fatores limitantes da densidade e da permanência de átomos confinados em armadilhas magneto-ópticas. A utilização do formalismo de Wigner nos possibilitou tratar a dinâmica dos graus de liberdade internos do sistema de forma puramente quântica, enquanto tratamos os graus de liberdade translacionais de maneira semiclássica. Com este formalismo deduzimos equações inéditas para uma colisão unidimensional e desenvolvemos um algoritmo, também inédito, para a resolução numérica de tais equações. / In this work we study the collision loss processes caused by fine-structure change and radiative escape. These processes are important because they limit the density and the confinement time of atoms in magneto-optical traps. The use of the Wigner-function formalism allows us to treat the internal degrees of freedom purely quantum mechanically, while treating the dynamics of the external degrees of freedom quasi-classically. This dissertation employs this formalism to derive for the first time, quasi-classical equations describing one-dimensional cold collisions, including dissipation due to spontaneous emission, and an algorithm, also for the first time, to solve numerically the mentioned set of coupled equations.

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