ELUCIDATION OF THE NEUTRON COHERENCE LENGTH AND A MATTER-WAVE SIDEBAND INTERFEROMETER

被引：38

作者：

GOLUB, R ^{[1
]}

LAMOREAUX, SK ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV WASHINGTON, DEPT PHYS, SEATTLE, WA 98195 USA

来源：

PHYSICS LETTERS A | 1992年 / 162卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1016/0375-9601(92)90987-W

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

It has been known for some time that a static, continuous beam experiment cannot distinguish between a pure superposition state and a mixture of states of parallel momentum in the incident beam. In this note we show how scattering from a time dependent system can be used to measure the auto-correlation function of the incident beam in a momentum representation, and hence make this distinction.

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页数：7

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