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Atomic diffraction through double slits and transmission gratings is well described in terms of the associated de Broglie waves and classical wave optics. However, for weakly bound and relatively large systems, such as the He_2 dimer, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Thorsten Koehler

An atomic grating generated by a pulsed standing wave laser field is proposed to manipulate the superfluid state in a quantum degenerate gas of fermionic atoms. We show that in the presence of atomic Cooper pairs, the density oscillations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 C. P. Search , H. Pu , W. Zhang , P. Meystre

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

Advances in micro-technology of the last years have made it possible to carry optics textbooks experiments over to atomic and molecular beams, such as diffraction by a double slit or transmission grating. The usual wave-optical approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Thorsten Koehler

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin

In this article, we derive a theoretical formalism that unifies the rigorous coupled wave analysis and the dynamical diffraction theory. Based on this formalism, we design a computational approach for the diffraction calculation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 K. V. Nikolaev , V. Soltwisch , M. A. Botchev , A. Fernández Herrero , P. Hönicke , F. Scholze , S. N. Yakunin

Lasers with wavelengths of the order of the atomic size are becoming available. We explore the behavior of light-matter interactions in this emergent field by considering the atomic Kapitza-Dirac effect. We derive the diffraction patterns,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pedro Sancho

We develop a versatile theoretical approach to the study of cold-atom diffractive scattering from light-field gratings by combining calculations of the optical near-field, generated by evanescent waves close to the surface of periodic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Leveque , C. Meier , R. Mathevet , C. Robiliiard , J. Weiner , C. Girard , J. C. Weeber

At the location of a magnetic-field Feshbach resonance, a mixture gas of fermionic atoms and dimers of fermionic atom pairs is investigated in the unitarity limit where the absolute value of the scattering length is much larger than the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongwei Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Mingsheng Zhan

An atom interferometer based on a Stern-Gerlach beam splitter is proposed. Atom scattering from a combination of magnetic quadrupole and homogeneous magnetic fields is considered. Using Raman transitions, atoms are coherently excited into…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Dubetsky , G. Raithel

Ultracold atoms interacting with the optical modes of a high-Q optical ring cavity can synchronize their motion. The collective behavior makes the system interesting for quantum computing applications. This paper is devoted to the study of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. von Cube , S. Slama , M. Kohler , C. Zimmermann , Ph. W. Courteille

We investigate the dynamics of modulational instability (MI) in $\cal PT$-symmetric fiber Bragg gratings with a phenomenon of intermodulation known as four-wave mixing (FWM). Although the impact of FWM has already been analyzed in the…

In this chapter, we demonstrate a general formulation of the Finite Element Method allowing to calculate the diffraction efficiencies from the electromagnetic field diffracted by arbitrarily shaped gratings embedded in a multilayered stack…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-06 Guillaume Demésy , Frédéric Zolla , André Nicolet , Benjamin Vial

In atom optics a material structure is commonly regarded as an amplitude mask for atom waves. However, atomic diffraction patterns formed using material gratings indicate that material structures also operate as phase masks. In this study a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John D. Perreault , Alexander D. Cronin , T. A. Savas

We study a dilute gas with two species of Fermionic atoms of unequal concentrations, interacting via a short-range interaction with one deeply bound state. We study the properties of this system under the mean-field approximation. We obtain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -K. Yip

An asymptotic theory of atom scattering by large amplitude periodic potentials is developed in the Raman-Nath approximation. The atom grating profile arising after scattering is evaluated in the Fresnel zone for triangular, sinusoidal,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Dubetsky , P. R. Berman

We study Bragg scattering at 1D atomic lattices. Cold atoms are confined by optical dipole forces at the antinodes of a standing wave generated inside a laser-driven cavity. The atoms arrange themselves into an array of lens-shaped layers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Slama , C. von Cube , M. Kohler , C. Zimmermann , Ph. W. Courteille

The strength of an atom-surface interaction is determined by studying atom diffraction from a rotated material grating. A phasor diagram is developed to interpret why diffraction orders are never completely suppressed when a complex…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander D. Cronin , John D. Perreault

The interaction of Na atoms with a surface was probed by inserting a nanofabricated material grating into one arm of an atom interferometer (IFM). This technique permits a direct measurement of the change in phase and coherence of matter…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 John D. Perreault , Alexander D. Cronin

A method for diffracting the weak probe beam into unidirectional and higher-order directions is proposed via a novel Rydberg electromagnetically induced grating, providing a new way for the implementations of quantum devices with cold…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Dandan Ma , Dongmin Yu Xingdong Zhao , Jing Qian