Reflection of Atoms from Standing Light Waves

Al'Tshuler, S. A.; Frantz, Lee M.; Braunstein, R.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.17.231

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“…Deflection and diffraction of atoms by light is a research area that can be traced back more than 40 years to early pioneering theoretical and experimental studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. The recent development of laser cooling and trapping technology, and the realization of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), have greatly advanced the research activities of coherent atom optics, a rapidly developing new research area of modern atomic physics.…”

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Matter-Wave Self-Imaging by Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion Induced Interference

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Hagley

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Phys. Rev. Lett.

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We demonstrate matter-wave self-imaging resulting from atomic center-of-mass motion-based interference. We show that non-negligible atomic center-of-mass motion and an instantaneous Doppler shift can drastically change the condensate momentum distribution, resulting in a periodic collapse and the recurrence of condensate diffraction probability as a function of the stationary light-field pulsing time. The observed matter-wave self-imaging is characterized by an atomic center-of-mass motion induced population amplitude interference in the presence of the light field that simultaneously minimizes all high (n>or=1) diffraction orders and maximizes the zeroth diffraction component.

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Matter-Wave Self-Imaging by Atomic Center-of-Mass Motion Induced Interference

Deng

Hagley

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Phys. Rev. Lett.

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“…In 1966, Altshuler et al [22] extended this idea to the diffraction of atoms: the diffraction probability was predicted to be considerably larger, especially if the laser frequency is close to a resonance transition.…”

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Atom interferometry

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In this paper, we present a brief overview of atom interferometry. This field of research has developed very rapidly since 1991. Atom and light wave interferometers present some similarities but there are very important differences in the tools used to manipulate these two types of waves. Moreover, the sensitivity of atomic waves and light waves to their environment is very different. Atom interferometry has already been used for a large variety of studies: measurements of atomic properties and of inertial effects (accelerations and rotations), new access to some fundamental constants, observation of quantum decoherence, etc. We review the techniques used for a coherent manipulation of atomic waves and the main applications of atom interferometers.

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“…The normal incidence diffraction of atoms by light [1][2][3][4] was experimentally studied more than ten years ago with atomic beams interacting with continuous standing waves [5]. All of these experiments were performed in the thin grating limit [4], in which the interaction time, t, of the atoms with the light is so short that their displacement along the standing wave can be neglected.…”

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