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We study an electron interferometer formed with a quantum point contact and a scanning probe tip in a two-dimensional electron gas. The images giving the conductance as a function of the tip position exhibit fringes spaced by half the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-29 Adel Abbout , Gabriel Lemarié , Jean-Louis Pichard

We develop a theoretical description of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer built from integer quantum Hall edge states, with an emphasis on how electron-electron interactions produce decoherence. We calculate the visibility of interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 J. T. Chalker , Yuval Gefen , M. Y. Veillette

We have built and operated an atom interferometer of the Mach-Zehnder type. The atomic wave is a supersonic beam of lithium seeded in argon and the mirrors and beam-splitters for the atomic wave are based on elastic Bragg diffraction on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Miffre , Marion Jacquey , Matthias Büchner , Gérard Trenec , Jacques Vigue

In this paper we update the existing schemes for computation of atom-interferometric signal in single-atom interferometers to interferometry with dense Bose-condensed atomic samples. Using the theory developed we explain the fringe contrast…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Olshanii , Vanja Dunjko

Interferometric contrast is a key factor limiting the sensitivity of precision optical measurements, including the laser interferometers used in gravitational-wave detection. While standard formulas describe the interference of circular…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-08 Mark Zhu , Sina M. Koehlenbeck , Edgard Bonilla , Brian Lantz

We report on the construction and characterization of a low-cost Mach-Zehnder optical interferometer in which quadrature signal detection is achieved by means of polarization control. The device incorporates a generic green laser pointer,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-25 Tanner M. Melody , Krishna H. Patel , Peter K. Nguyen , Christopher L. Smallwood

Electronic spin precession and filtering are measured in the molecular field of magnetic thin films. The conducted lab-on-chip experiments allow injection of electrons with energies between 0.8 and 1.1 eV, an energy range never explored up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Christopher Vautrin , Daniel Lacour , Coriolan Tiusan , Yuan Lu , François Montaigne , Mairbek Chshiev , Wolfgang Weber , Michel Hehn

A spherical Fabry-Perot interferometer with adjustable mirror spacing is used to produce interference fringes with frequency separation (c/2L)/N, N=2-15. The conditions for observation of these fringes are derived from the consideration of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Katherine Kerner , Simon M. Rochester , Valeriy V. Yashchuk , D. Budker

Using ab-initio methods we investigate the possibility of three-terminal graphene "T-junction" devices and show that these all-graphene edge contacts are energetically feasible when the 1D interface itself is free from foreign atoms. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Kåre Wedel Jacobsen , Jesper Toft Falkenberg , Nick Papior , Peter Bøggild , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Mads Brandbyge

Graphene has been considered as a promising material for opto-electronic devices, because of its tunable and wideband optical properties. In this work, we demonstrate electro-refractive phase modulation in graphene at wavelengths from 1530…

Measurement technology employing optical interference phenomena such as a fringe pattern or frequency shift has been evolving for more than a century. The systems are being designed better, and their components are being built better. But…

X-ray grating interferometry allows for the simultaneous acquisition of attenuation, differential-phase contrast, and dark-field images, resulting from X-ray attenuation, refraction, and small-angle scattering, respectively. The modulated…

The interaction between charged particles and the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field induces decoherence, and therefore affects the contrast of fringes in an interference experiment. In this article we show that if a double…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ezequiel Alvarez , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

We study the sensitivity of the processes `e+ e- -> lepton (l) neutrino (v) quark (u) antiquark (d)', where the lepton is an electron or a muon, on the non-standard trilinear gauge couplings (TGC), using the optimal observables method at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 G. J. Gounaris , Costas G. Papadopoulos

The coherence effects induced by external photons coupled to matter waves inside a Mach-Zehnder three-grating interferometer are analyzed. Alternatively to atom-photon entanglement scenarios, the model considered here only relies on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-09 M. Davidovic , A. S. Sanz , M. Bozic , D. Arsenovic

Controlled etching of copper electrodes in Gas Electron Multiplier foils allows a reduction of the material budget by more than a factor of two for a triple-GEM detector. Detectors making use of thinned foils provide performances similar to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bondar , A. Buzulutskov , R. de Oliveira , L. Ropelewski , F. Sauli , L. Shekhtman

We investigate the temperature and voltage dependence of the quantum interference in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer using edge channels in the integer quantum-Hall-regime. The amplitude of the interference fringes is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. V. Litvin , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

Grover multiports are higher-dimensional generalizations of beam splitters, in which input to any one of the four ports has equal probability of exiting at any of the same four ports, including the input port. In this paper, we demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 David S. Simon , Christopher R. Schwarze , Alexander V. Sergienko

The interference pattern of the resonance fluorescence from a J=1/2 to J=1/2 transition of two identical atoms confined in a three-dimensional harmonic potential is calculated. Thermal motion of the atoms is included. Agreement is obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. M. Itano , J. C. Bergquist , J. J. Bollinger , D. J. Wineland , U. Eichmann , M. G. Raizen