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Time-resolved atom interferometry, as employed in applications such as gravitational wave detection and searches for ultra-light dark matter, requires precise control over systematic effects. In this work, we investigate phase noise arising…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Noam Mouelle , Jeremiah Mitchell , Valerie Gibson , Ulrich Schneider

The Fraunhofer diffraction of quantum particles from materials with sharp electron-density edges or symmetric bond structures is ubiquitous. In contrast, diffraction from atoms with characteristic asymptotically-diffused electron…

Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)-based atom interferometry exploits low temperatures and long coherence lengths to facilitate high-precision measurements. Progress in atom interferometry promises improvements in navigational devices like…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-11-25 Mary Clare Cassidy , Malcolm G. Boshier , Lee E. Harrell

Light is extensively used to steer the motion of atoms in free space, enabling cooling and trapping of matter waves through ponderomotive forces and Doppler-mediated photon scattering. Likewise, light interaction with free electrons has…

Diffusing-wave spectroscopy is a powerful technique which consists in measuring the temporal correlation function of the intensity of light multiply scattered by a medium. In this paper, we apply this technique to cold atoms under purely…

The diffraction of fast atoms at crystal surfaces is ideal for a detailed investigation of the surface electronic density. However, instead of sharp diffraction spots, most experiments show elongated streaks characteristic of inelastic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Philippe Roncin , Maxime Debiossac

In this paper, we provide an algorithm and general framework for the simulation of photons passing through linear optical interferometers. Given $n$ photons at the input of an $m$-mode interferometer, our algorithm computes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Nicolas Heurtel , Shane Mansfield , Jean Senellart , Benoît Valiron

We demonstrate matterwave interference in a warm vapor of rubidium atoms. Established approaches to light pulse atom interferometry rely on laser cooling to concentrate a large ensemble of atoms into a velocity class resonant with the atom…

A unitary model describing the electronic transitions in an atom subject to a strong high frequency laser pulse is proposed. The model fully accounts for the initial state coupling with the continuum spectrum. Continuum-continuum as well as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 M. G. Bustamante , V. D. Rodríguez

Interferometry is a prime technique for modern precision measurements. Atoms, unlike light, have significant interactions with electric, magnetic, and gravitational fields, making their use in interferometric applications particularly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-12 Maren E. Mossman , Ryan A. Corbin , Michael McNeil Forbes , Peter Engels

In experimental physics, it is essential to understand electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering across EM spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays, and is pivotal in driving photonics innovations. Recent advancements have uncovered phenomena like…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-23 Deepanshu Trivedi , Arjuna Madanayake , Alex Krasnok

We experimentally investigate a scheme for studying lattice transport phenomena, based on the controlled momentum-space dynamics of ultracold atomic matter waves. In the effective tight-binding models that can be simulated, we demonstrate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-12 Eric J. Meier , Fangzhao Alex An , Bryce Gadway

A few years ago, diffraction of atoms by double slits and gratings was achieved for the first time, and standard optical wave-theory provided an excellent description of the experiments. More recently, diffraction of weakly bound molecules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Thorsten Koehler

To investigate inelastic electron scattering, which is ubiquitous in various fields of study, we carry out ab initio study of the real-time dynamics of a one-dimensional electron wave packet scattered by a hydrogen atom using different…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Yeonghun Lee , Xiaolong Yao , Massimo V. Fischetti , Kyeongjae Cho

We study off-resonant collective light scattering from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. Scattering from different atomic quantum states creates different quantum states of the scattered light, which can be distinguished by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-22 Igor B. Mekhov , Christoph Maschler , Helmut Ritsch

We demonstrate area-enclosing atom interferometry based on a moving guide. Light pulses along the free propagation direction of a magnetic guide are applied to split and recombine the confined atomic matter-wave, while the atoms are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-10-15 Saijun Wu , Edward J. Su , Mara Prentiss

We examine x-ray scattering from an isolated organic molecule from the linear to nonlinear absorptiveregime. In the nonlinear regime, we explore the importance of both the elastic and inelastic channelsand observe the onset of nonlinear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Phay J. Ho , Adam E. A. Fouda , Kai Li , Gilles Doumy , Linda Young

Circular atomtronics is known to exhibit a uniform ground state, unlike elliptical atomtronics. In elliptical atomtronics, the matter wave tends to accumulate along the semimajor edges during its time dynamics, which we depict by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Sriganapathy Raghav , Suranjana Ghosh , Jayanta Bera , Utpal Roy

Atom interferometry is the most successful technique for precision metrology. However, current interferometers using ultracold atoms allows one to probe the interference pattern only momentarily and has finite duty cycle, resulting in an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Sumit Sarkar , Jay Mangaonkar , Chetan Vishwakarma , Umakant D. Rapol

It is shown that the atom-molecule collision problem in the presence of an external electric field can be solved using the total angular momentum representation in the body-fixed coordinated frame, leading to a computationally efficient…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 T. V. Tscherbul