Selected Publications from the Pritchard Atom-Interferometer Group

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1) An Interferometer for Atoms
     PRL 66  pg. 2693  May 1991

2)  Index of Refraction of Various Gases for Sodium Matter Waves
     PRL 74  pg 1043  February 1995

3)  Optics and Interferometry with Na2 Molecules
     PRL 74  pg. 4783  June 1995

4)  Photon Scattering from Atoms in an Atom Interferometer: Coherence Lost and Regained
     PRL 75  pg. 3783  Nov 1995

5)  Measurement of the electric polarizability of sodium with an atom interferometer
     PRA 51  pg. 3883  May 1995

6)  Rotation Sensing with an Atom Interferometer
     PRL 78  pg. 760    February 1997

7)  Velocity Rephased Longitudinal Momentum Coherences with Differentially Detuned Separated Oscillatory Fields
     PRL  81 pg. 1996  September 1998

8)  Search for Off-Diagonal Density Matrix Elements for Atoms in a Supersonic Beam
     PRL  82 pg. 2018  March 1999

9)  From Single to multiple-Photon Decoherence in an Atom Interferometer
     PRL 86 pg. 2191 March 2001

10) Atom optics: Old ideas, current technology, and new results
     Ann.Phys.(Leip ig)10 (2001)1 –2,35 –54

11)  Coherent manipulation of atoms with standing light waves
     C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, t. 2, Série IV, p. 1–17, 2001

Several writeups in popular press have featured our atom interferometer.

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T.D. Hammond, M. S. Chapman, A. Lenef, J. Schmiedmayer, E.T. Smith, R.A. Rubenstein, D.A. Kokorowski and D.E. Pritchard, Brazilian Journal of Physics 27, 193 (1997). Matter-Wave Index of Refraction, Inertial Sensing and Quantum Decoherence in an Atom Interferometer.

J. Schmiedmayer, M.S. Chapman, C.R. Ekstrom, T.D. Hammond, D.A. Kokorowski, A. Lenef, R.A. Rubenstein, E.T. Smith, and D.E. Pritchard, "Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules," in Atom Interferometry, ed. Paul Berman, Academic
Press, San Diego, CA, 1997.

T.D. Hammond, D.E. Pritchard, M.S. Chapman, A. Lenef, and J. Schmiedmayer, Appl. Phys. B 60, 193 (1995). Multiple Velocity Selection for Precision Matter Wave Interferometry.