Wave mechanics of a two-wire atomic beam splitter
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Wave mechanics of a two-wire atomic beam splitter
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 nonadiabatic passage of the atoms through the splitter region. We are thus able to probe the fully three-dimensional structure...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review A
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1050-2947,1094-1622
DOI: 10.1103/physreva.69.033607