Measurement-induced diffraction and interference of atoms
- 27 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (4), 472-475
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.472
Abstract
The position of an atom passing through a standard light wave is localized by making a quadrature phase measurement on the light field. This localization can be thought of as the creation of a virtual slit (or slits) for the atom by the field measurement. Diffraction and interference behavior may be observed in the far field.Keywords
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