Exact phase shifts for atom interferometry
Atomic Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In the case of an external Hamiltonian at most quadratic in position and momentum operators, we use the ABCD formulation of atom optics to establish an exact analytical phase shift expression for atom interferometers with arbitrary spatial or temporal beam splitter configurations. This result is expressed in terms of coordinates and momenta of the wave packet centers at the interaction vertices only.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0210083,
title = {Exact phase shifts for atom interferometry},
author = {Ch. Antoine and Ch. J. Borde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0210083},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
11 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Lett. A