Suppression of decoherence-induced diffusion in the quantum kicked rotor

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We describe a method that allows transient suppression of spontaneous emission-induced diffusion in the atom-optics realization of the kicked rotor. The system is prepared in an initial state with a momentum distribution concentrated in an interval much sharper than the Brillouin zone; the measure of the momentum distribution is restricted to this interval of quasimomenta. Because most of the atoms undergoing decoherence processes fall outside this detection range and thus are not detected, the measured signal is effectively free of decoherence-induced diffusion effects.