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Coherent atomic matter waves

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The first demonstrated atom interferometers, reported in 1991 by [1] and [2] were based on the diffraction of atoms with micro fabricated structures. This class of atom interferometers is analogous to optical interferometers, where slits or diffraction gratings have been used to divide and recombine beams of atoms. The gratings and slits can be either material structures or periodic light fields. Three months later, atom interferometers based on optical pulses of light were reported by [3], and by [4] In this class of interferometers, the spatial separation of the atoms is accomplished by the momentum recoil induced by the electromagnetic field used to drive the atoms from one internal state to another. Thus, the internal and external degrees of freedom are intimately connected.

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Chu, S. (2001). Atom Interferometry. In: Kaiser, R., Westbrook, C., David, F. (eds) Coherent atomic matter waves. Les Houches - Ecole d’Ete de Physique Theorique, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45338-5_4

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