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We realize an interferometer with an atomic Fermi gas trapped in an optical lattice under the influence of gravity. The single-particle interference between the eigenstates of the lattice results in macroscopic Bloch oscillations of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Roati , E. de Mirandes , F. Ferlaino , H. Ott , G. Modugno , M. Inguscio

Neutron grating interferometry provides information on phase and small-angle scatter in addition to attenuation. Previously, phase grating moir\'e interferometers (PGMI) with two- or three-phase gratings have been developed. These…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-19 I. J. Hidrovo , J. Dey , H. Meyer , D. S. Hussey , N. N. Klimov , L. G. Butler , K. Ham , W. Newhauser

A dynamical, non-Euclidean spacetime geometry in general relativity theory implies the possibility of gravitational radiation. Here we explore novel methods of detecting such radiation from astrophysical sources by means of matter-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Raymond Y. Chiao , Achilles D. Speliotopoulos

We show that it is possible to reach the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the phase estimation using two independently prepared Bose-Einstein condensates as an input of an interferometer. In this scenario, the quantum correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Wasak , P. Szańkowski , J. Chwedeńczuk

We have realized an interferometer using a thermal cloud of magnetically trapped rubidium 87 atoms on a chip. The interferometer resembles a Ramsey interferometer with a state selective spatial splitting of the two internal states as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 B. Wirtschafter , C. I. Westbrook , M. Dupont-Nivet

Interference is a powerful tool for measuring and control. In M\"ossbauer science, interference effects are essential to most applications, due to the coherent scattering nature. However, M\"ossbauer interferometry remains challenging, due…

We demonstrate an optical method for detecting the mechanical oscillations of an atom with single-phonon sensitivity. The measurement signal results from the interference between the light scattered by a single trapped atomic ion and that…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 G. Cerchiari , G. Araneda , L. Podhora , L. Slodička , Y. Colombe , R. Blatt

Atom interferometers offer excellent sensitivity to gravitational and inertial signals but have limited dynamic range. We introduce a scheme that improves on this trade-off by a factor of 50 using composite fringes, obtained from sets of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Chen Avinadav , Dimitry Yankelev , Ofer Firstenberg , Nir Davidson

Multiphoton-ionized electrons are born into a strong light field that will determine their short-term future. By controlling the infrared beam, we enable atoms or molecules to generate extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses and synthesize…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Dong Hyuk Ko , Graham G. Brown , Chunmei Zhang , P. B. Corkum

A measurement process is constructed to project an arbitrary two-mode $N$-photon state to a maximally entangled $N$-photon state (the {\it NOON}-state). The result of this projection measurement shows a typical interference fringe with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. W. Sun , B. H. Liu , Y. F. Huang , Z. Y. Ou , G. C. Guo

Matter-wave interferometry with nanoparticles will enable the development of quantum sensors capable of probing ultraweak fields with unprecedented applications for fundamental physics. The high sensitivity of such devices however makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Paolo Fragolino , Martine Schut , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

Optical interferometric imaging enables astronomical observation at extremely high angular resolution. The necessary optical information for imaging, such as the optical path differences and visibilities, is easy to extract from fringes…

This chapter reviews recent experiments on matter wave interferometry with large molecules. Starting from an elementary introduction to matter wave physics we discuss far-field diffraction and near-field interferometry with thermally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-22 Markus Arndt , Klaus Hornberger

X-ray interferometry is an emerging imaging modality with a wide variety of potential clinical applications, including lung and breast imaging, as well as in non-destructive testing, such as additive manufacturing and porosimetry. A grating…

We demonstrate a simple single grating beam modulation technique, which enables the use of a highly intense neutron beam for phase imaging and thus spatially resolved structural correlation measurements in full analogy to quantum…

Particle-wave duality enables the construction of interferometers for matter waves, which complement optical interferometers in precision measurement devices. This requires the development of atom-optics analogs to beam splitters, phase…

We present a free-space interferometer to observe two-particle interference of a pair of atoms with entangled momenta. The source of atom pairs is a Bose--Einstein condensate subject to a dynamical instability, and the interferometer is…

Diffraction of slow neutrons by nanoparticle-polymer composite gratings has been observed. By carefully choosing grating parameters such as grating thickness and spacing, a three-port beam splitter operation for cold neutrons - splitting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Klepp , Y. Tomita , C. Pruner , J. Kohlbrecher , M. Fally

We propose methods to perform intensity interferometry of photons having two different wavelengths. Distinguishable particles typically cannot interfere with each other, but we overcome that obstacle by processing the particles via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek , Victoria Borish

We demonstrate an atom interferometer that uses a laser-cooled continuous beam of $^{87}$Rb atoms having velocities of 10--20 m/s. With spatially separated Raman beams to coherently manipulate the atomic wave packets, Mach--Zehnder…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 H. B. Xue , Y. Y. Feng , S. Chen , X. J. Wang , X. S. Yan , Z. K. Jiang , Z. Y. Zhou