Diffraction phases in atom interferometers

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Diffraction of atoms by laser is a very important tool for matter wave optics. Although this process is well understood, the phase shifts induced by this diffraction process are not well known. In this paper, we make analytic calculations of these phase shifts in some simple cases and we use these results to model the contrast interferometer recently built by the group of D. Pritchard at MIT. We thus show that the values of the diffraction phases are large and that they probably contribute to the phase noise observed in this experiment.
v3 11/03/03

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Quantum Physics, Atomic Physics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/90699

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https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0211192
 http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0211192

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