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Influence of intrinsic decoherence on nonclassical properties of the output of a Bose-Einstein condensate Shang-bin Li1,2∗and Jing-bo Xu1,2 5 0 1Chinese Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Labor- 0 2 atory), P.O.Box 8730, Beijing, People’s Republic of China n 2Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, u J Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China† 7 2 1 v Abstract 8 1 2 We investigate nonclassical properties of the output of a Bose-Einstein 6 condensate in Milburn’s model of intrinsic decoherence. It is shown that 0 the squeezing property of the atom laser is suppressed due to decoherence. 5 0 Nevertheless, if some very special conditions were satisfied, the squeezing / h properties of atom laser could be robust against the decoherence. p - t PACS numbers: 03.75.Gg, 03.75.Pp, 03.65.Ta n a u Keywords: Atom laser; Quadrature Squeezing; Decoherence q : v i X r a ∗Corresponding author. E-mail address: sbli@zju.edu.cn †Mailing address 1 I. INTRODUCTION Recently, the development of dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) [1,2,3] has opened up the study of atom laser [4-7], which is the matter wave analogs of optical lasers. The ideal atom laser beam is a single frequency de Broglie wave with well- defined intensity and phase. The first realization of a pulsed atom laser was achieved with sodium atoms at MIT by coupling a BEC from a magnetically trapped state to an untrapped state using a rf pulse [8]. Then, it was repeated with long rf pulses [9] and Rama