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A combination of aluminium prisms inserted into a nested loop interferometer is used to generate a neutron phase vortex lattice with significant extrinsic orbital angular momentum, L_z=0.35, on a length scale of 220 microns, transverse to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Niels Geerits , Hartmut Lemmel , Anna-Sophie Berger , Stephan Sponar

We introduce a matter wave interference scheme based on the quantization of orbital angular momentum in a ring trap. It operates without beam splitters, is sensitive to geometric phases induced by external gauge fields, and allows measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Filip Kiałka , Benjamin A. Stickler , Klaus Hornberger

Thanks to progress in optics in the past two decades, it is possible to create photons carrying well-defined non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM). Boosting these photons into high-energy range preserving their OAM seems feasible.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 I. P. Ivanov

The vortex matter in bulk type-II superconductors serves as a prototype system for studying the random pinning problem in condensed matter physics. Since the vortex lattice is embedded in an atomic lattice, small angle neutron scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-29 Xi Wang , Helen A. Hanson , Xinsheng Sean Ling , Charles F. Majkrzak , Brian B. Maranville

The development of qualitatively new measurement capabilities is often a prerequisite for critical scientific and technological advances. The dramatic progress made by modern probe techniques to uncover the microscopic structure of matter…

We report an iterative algorithm to retrieve accurate real space information from gas phase ultrafast diffraction measurements with missing data at low momentum transfer. The algorithm operates in a manner similar to phase retrieval…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Yanwei Xiong , Nikhil Kumar Pachisia , Martin Centurion

We develop an analytical tool to extract bulk electronic properties of unconventional superconductors through inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectra. Since the spin excitation spectrum in the superconducting (SC) state originates from…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-10 Tanmoy Das , R. S. Markiewicz , A. Bansil

Helium atom scattering (HAS) is a well established technique for examining the surface structure and dynamics of materials at atomic sized resolution. The HAS technique Helium spin-echo spectroscopy opens up the possibility of compressing…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-05 Alex Jones , Anton Tamtögl , Irene Calvo-Almazán , Anders Hansen

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Neutral helium atom microscopy is a novel microscopy technique that offers strictly surface-sensitive, non-destructive imaging. Several experiments have been published in recent years where images are obtained by scanning a helium beam spot…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-24 Ranveig Flatabø , Sabrina D. Eder , Thomas Reisinger , Gianangelo Bracco , Peter Baltzer , Björn Samelin , Bodil Holst

It is generally assumed by most of the small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) user community that a neutrons energy is unchanged during SANS measurements. Here, the scattering from water, specifically light water, was measured on the EQ-SANS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-10 Changwoo Do , William T. Heller , Christopher Stanley , Franz X. Gallmeier , Mathieu Doucet , Gregory S. Smith

Here we propose to exploit the low energy bandwidth, small wavelength and penetration power of ultrashort pulses from XFELs for resonant Small Angle Scattering (SAXS) on plasma structures in laser excited plasmas. Small angle scattering…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Thomas Kluge , M. Bussmann , H. -K. Chung , C. Gutt , L. G. Huang , M. Zacharias , U. Schramm , T. E. Cowan

Neutron grating interferometry is an advanced method in neutron imaging that allows the simultaneous recording of the transmission, the differential phase and the dark-field image. Especially the latter has recently received high interest…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-10 Tommy Reimann , Sebastian Mühlbauer , Michael Horisberger , Peter Böni , Michael Schulz

Femtosecond light pulses carrying optical angular momentums (OAMs), possessing intriguing properties of helical phase fronts and ultrafast temporal profiles, enable many applications in nonlinear optics, strong-field physics and laser…

The ability to measure polarisation, spectrum, temporal dynamics, and spatial amplitude and phase of optical beams is essential to study fundamental phenomena in laser dynamics, telecommunications and nonlinear optics. Current…

This study proposes a method to control the frequency-dependent scattering spectra from plasmonic spheres via the conservation of incident orbital angular momentum (OAM). By providing controllable distributions of OAM content, fractional…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Aaron S. Rury

Phase is an intrinsic property of light, and thus a crucial parameter across numerous applications in modern optics. Various methods exist for measuring the phase of light, each presenting challenges and limitations-from the mechanical…

Infrared space interferometers can surpass the spatial resolution limitations of single-dish space telescopes. However, stellar interferometers from space have not been realized because of technical difficulties. Two beams coming from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-20 Taro Matsuo , Satoshi Ikari , Hirotaka Kondo , Sho Ishiwata , Shinichi Nakasuka , Tomoyasu Yamamuro

Atmospheric turbulence characterization is crucial for technologies like free-space optical communications. Existing methods using a spatially-integrated one-dimensional (1D) orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum, P(m), obscure the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-09 Wenjie Jiang , Mingjian Cheng , Lixin Guo , Andrew Forbes

Utilizing nonlinear interferometers for sensing with undetected light enables new sensing and imaging techniques in spectral ranges that are difficult to detect. To enhance this method for future applications, it is advantageous to extract…