Interference of small and of large quantum particles behind an asymmetric grating

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 B, 2004, Pages

  Božić, Mirjana ^a   Arsenović, Dušan ^a   Vušković, Leposava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LATTICE CONSTANTS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

ASYMMETRIC GRATING; INTERFERENCE PATTERN; QUANTUM PARTICLES; TRANSVERSE MOMENTUM DISTRIBUTION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 3042713963     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.053618     Document Type: Article

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