Fringe spacing and phase of interfering matter waves

Details Fringe spacing and phase of interfering matter waves Fringe spacing and phase of interfering matter waves

2006-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0601690v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.73.063613

We experimentally investigate the outcoupling of atoms from Bose-Einstein condensates using two radio-frequency (rf) fields in the presence of gravity. We show that the fringe separation in the resulting interference pattern derives entirely from the energy difference between the two rf fields and not the gravitational potential difference. We subsequently demonstrate how the phase and polarisation of the rf radiation directly control the phase of the matter wave interference and provide a semi-classical interpretation of the results.

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