Wave Mechanics of a Two Wire Atomic Beamsplitter
Daniele C. E. Bortolotti, John L. Bohn
Abstract
We consider the problem of an atomic beam propagating quantum mechanically through an atom beam splitter. Casting the problem in an adiabatic representation (in the spirit of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in molecular physics) sheds light on explicit effects due to non-adiabatic passage of the atoms through the splitter region. We are thus able to probe the fully three dimensional structure of the beam splitter, gathering quantitative information about mode-mixing, splitting ratios,and reflection and transmission probabilities.
Create a lesson
Related papers
Cryogenic suppression of correlated loss in Rydberg atom arrays
Zhenpu Zhang, Brendan P. Marsh, Ting You Tan et al.
Nuclear recoil with electron vacuum polarization in muonic atoms
Vojtěch Patkóš, Mateusz Pańtak, Krzysztof Pachucki
The two-loop Lamb shift: the final missing contribution
J. Sommerfeldt, V. A. Yerokhin, Z. Harman et al.
Sympathetic Cooling of Ionic Fullerenes with Ultracold Atoms to Millikelvin Temperatures
Saajid Chowdhury, Zhongqi Liang, Yu Wang et al.
Ultracold polar molecules for quantum science and technology
Philip D. Gregory, Simon L. Cornish
Wavefront engineering with atomic Huygens' surfaces made simple
K. E. Ballantine, J. Ruostekoski