He-McKellar-Wilkens topological phase in atom interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Lepoutre, S ^a   Gauguet, A ^a   Trenec G ^a   Buchner M ^a   Vigue J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM INTERFEROMETER; ATOM INTERFEROMETRY; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; PHASE SENSITIVITY; THEORETICAL VALUES; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE;

EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84866671611     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.120404     Document Type: Article

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