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de-Broglie Wave-Front Engineering

M. Olshanii, N. Dekker, C. Herzog, M. Prentiss

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9811021

Abstract

We propose a simple method for the deterministic generation of an arbitrary continuous quantum state of the center-of-mass of an atom. The method's spatial resolution gradually increases with the interaction time with no apparent fundamental limitations. Such de-Broglie Wave-Front Engineering of the atomic density can find applications in Atom Lithography, and we discuss possible implementations of our scheme in atomic beam experiments.

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