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The backscattering of laser radiation by a relativistic electron beam is a widely used method for measuring the spin polarization of electrons. We consider again the properties of the scattering process paying special attention to recoil…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 N. Yu. Muchnoi

To investigate quantum nature of two dimensional electrons subject to high perpendicular magnetic fields, usually a planar electronic Fabry-P\'erot interferometer is utilized. In this work, we investigate an interferometer defined on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 S. Seyyare Aksu , Oguzhan Kasikci , A. Siddiki

We demonstrate the splitting of a low-energy electron beam by means of a microwave pseudopotential formed above a planar chip substrate. Beam splitting arises from smoothly transforming the transverse guiding potential for an electron beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jakob Hammer , Sebastian Thomas , Philipp Weber , Peter Hommelhoff

Mapping the potential landscape with high spatial resolution is crucial for quantum technologies based on ultracold atoms. Yet, imaging optical dipole traps is challenging because purely optical methods, commonly used to profile laser beams…

Non-classical electron diffusion in crossed-field, low-temperature plasmas is measured experimentally. Laser-induced fluorescence and Thomson scattering are used to determine the inverse Hall parameter, a metric for cross-field transport,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Parker J. Roberts , Benjamin A. Jorns

By engineering and manipulating quantum entanglement between incoming photons and experimental apparatus, we construct single-photon detectors which cannot distinguish between photons of very different wavelengths. These color erasure…

Remarkable progress can be observed in recent years in the controlled emission, guiding and detection of coherent, free electrons. Those methods were applied in matter wave interferometers leading to high phase sensitivities and novel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Andreas Pooch , Michael Seidling , Moritz Layer , Alexander Rembold , Alexander Stibor

We report on a two-particle matter wave interferometer realized with pairs of trapped 87Rb atoms. Each pair of atoms is confined at a single site of an optical lattice potential. The interferometer is realized by first creating a coherent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Artur Widera , Olaf Mandel , Markus Greiner , Susanne Kreim , Theodor W. Hänsch , Immanuel Bloch

We provide a comprehensive study of ultra-cold atom diffraction by an optical lattice. We focus on an intermediate regime between the Raman-Nath and the Bragg regimes, the so-called quasi-Bragg regime. The experimental results are in a good…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Ashley Béguin , Tangui Rodzinka , Jacques Vigué , Baptiste Allard , Alexandre Gauguet

The attenuation of fringe contrast in a Ramsey interferometer induced by the atom-field interaction is analyzed. We show that short-time power series expansion is not the proper tool to find the relevant time scale for such process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-13 A. R. Bosco de Magalhães , Adélcio C. Oliveira

We present a methodology for the design of optimal Raman beam-splitter pulses suitable for cold atom inertial sensors. The methodology, based on time-dependent perturbation theory, links optimal control and the sensitivity function…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 Nikolaos Dedes , Jack Saywell , Max Carey , Ilya Kuprov , Tim Freegarde

We derive generic phase and amplitude coupling relations for beam splitters-combiners that couple a single port with three output ports or input ports, respectively. We apply the coupling relations to a reflection grating that serves as a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Schnabel , A. Bunkowski , O. Burmeister , K. Danzmann

The efficiency of an atomic interferometer in proximity of a surface is discussed. We first study which is the best choice of frequency for a pulse acting on internal atomic transitions in the same well. Then considering the modification of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 Sophie Pelisson , Riccardo Messina , Marie-Christine Angonin , Peter Wolf

We show that interference phenomena plays a big role for the electron yield in ionization of atoms by an ultra-short laser pulse. Our theoretical study of single ionization of atoms driven by few-cycles pulses extends the photoelectron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diego Arbo , Emil Persson , Joachim Burgdoerfer

Electron Raman scattering (ERS) is investigated in a parabolic semiconductor quantum wire in a transverse magnetic field neglecting by phonon-assisted transitions. The ERS cross-section is calculated as a function of a frequency shift and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. M. Hashimzade , T. G. Ismailov , B. H. Mehdiyev , S. T. Pavlov

We have shown via explicit analysis as well as numerical simulation the design of two large angle interferometers employing two-photon pulses. The first one uses the technique of adiabatic following in a dark state to produce a large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Shahriar , T. Zelevinsky , P. R. Hemmer

A theoretical study of laser and plasma based electron acceleration is presented. An effective model has been used, in which the presence of an underdense plasma has been taken account via its index of refraction $n_{m}$. In the confines of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Mihály András Pocsai , Imre Ferenc Barna , Sándor Varró

The fields in multiple-pass interferometers, such as the Fabry--P\'erot cavity, exhibit great sensitivity not only to the presence but also to the motion of any scattering object within the optical path. We consider the general case of an…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-02 André Xuereb , Tim Freegarde , Peter Horak , Peter Domokos

We study theoretically and experimentally the influence of temporally shaping the light pulses in an atom interferometer, with a focus on the phase response of the interferometer. We show that smooth light pulse shapes allow rejecting high…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-12-22 Bess Fang , Nicolas Mielec , Denis Savoie , Matteo Altorio , Arnaud Landragin , Remi Geiger

The advantage of attosecond measurements is the possibility of time-resolving ultrafast quantum phenomena of electron dynamics. Many such measurements are of interferometric nature, and therefore give access to the phase. Likewise, weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Philipp Stammer , Javier Rivera-Dean , Marcelo F. Ciappina , Maciej Lewenstein