| Autor: |
Yair Margalit, Zhifan Zhou, Shimon Machluf, Yonathan Japha, Samuel Moukouri, Ron Folman |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
New Journal of Physics, Vol 21, Iss 7, p 073040 (2019) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1367-2630 |
| DOI: |
10.1088/1367-2630/ab2fdc |
| Popis: |
The discovery of the Stern–Gerlach (SG) effect almost a century ago was followed by suggestions to use the effect as a basis for matter-wave interferometry. However, the coherence of splitting particles with spin by a magnetic gradient to a distance exceeding the position uncertainty in each of the arms was not demonstrated until recently, where spatial interference fringes were observed in a proof-of-principle experiment. Here we present and analyze the performance of an improved high-stability SG spatial fringe interferometer based on two spatially separate wave packets with a maximal distance that is more than an order of magnitude larger than their minimal widths. The improved performance is enabled by accurate magnetic field gradient pulses, originating from a novel atom chip configuration, which ensures high stability of the interferometer operation. We analyze the achieved stability using several models, discuss sources of noise, and detail interferometer optimization procedures. We also present a simple analytical phase-space description of the interferometer sequence that demonstrates quantitatively the complete separation of the superposed wave packets ^2 . |
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