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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 76, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.033618
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [GR/R87024/01, GR/T01273/01, GR/R87024/02] Funding Source: researchfish
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We investigate theoretically the magnetic spin-flip transitions of neutral atoms trapped near a superconducting slab. Our calculations are based on a quantum-theoretical treatment of electromagnetic radiation near dielectric and metallic bodies. Specific results are given for rubidium atoms near a niobium superconductor. At the low frequencies typical of atomic transitions, we find that BCS theory greatly overestimates coherence effects, which are much less pronounced when quasiparticle lifetime effects are included through Eliashberg theory. At 4.2 K, the typical atomic spin lifetime is found to be larger than 1000 s, even for atom-superconductor distances of one 1 mu m. This constitutes a large enhancement in comparison with normal metals.
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