Atomic interferometer with amplitude gratings of light and its applications to atom based tests of the equivalence principle

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Fray, Sebastian ^a   Diez, Cristina Alvarez ^a,b   Hänsch, Theodor W ^a,b   Weitz, Martin ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC INTERFEROMETERS; DE BROGLIE WAVES; ELECTRON SPIN; EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; GROUND STATE; INTERFEROMETERS; ISOTOPES; RUBIDIUM;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 42749107135     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.240404     Document Type: Article

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