Theory of near-field matter-wave interference beyond the eikonal approximation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Nimmrichter, Stefan ^a,b   Hornberger, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

BEAM CHARACTERISTICS; BEAM PARTICLES; COMPLEX PARTICLES; DISPERSION INTERACTIONS; EIKONAL APPROXIMATIONS; FRINGE VISIBILITIES; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; INTERACTION PROCESSES; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; MATTER WAVES; MATTER-WAVE INTERFERENCE; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL ELEMENTS; PHASE-SPACE FORMULATION; SEMICLASSICAL SCATTERING;

FLOW INTERACTIONS;

EID: 49249130035     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.023612     Document Type: Article

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