Dispersion and uncertainty in multislit matter wave diffraction

G. Glionna, A.H. Blin, B. Hiller, M.C. Nemes, Marcos Sampaio and A.F.R. de Toledo Piza

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, issue 7, 1485-1490

Abstract: We show that single and multislit experiments involving matter waves may be constructed to assess dispersively generated correlations between the position and momentum of a single free particle. These correlations give rise to position dependent phases which develop dynamically as a result of dispersion and may play an important role in the interference patterns. To the extent that initial transverse coherence is preserved throughout the proposed diffraction setup, such interference patterns are noticeably different from those of a classical dispersion free wave.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.10.069

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