Non-classical behavior of atoms in an interferometer

Details Non-classical behavior of atoms in an interferometer Non-classical behavior of atoms in an interferometer

2001-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105129v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

10 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

We have studied the properties of the non-classical behavior of atoms in a double-slit interferometer. An indication of this behavior for metastable helium was reported by Kurtsiefer, Pfau and Mlynek [Nature 386, 150 (1997)] showing distinctive negative values of the Wigner function, which was reconstructed from the measured diffraction data. Our approach to explain this non-classical behavior is based on the de Broglie-Bohm-Vigier-Selleri understanding of the wave-particle duality and compatible statistical interpretation of the atomic wave function. It follows from the results that the atomic motion is non-classical because it does not obey the laws of classical mechanics. However, there is no evidence that this atomic behavior violates the classical probability law of the addition of probabilities.

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