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Our goal is to pioneer new measurement techniques using atom optics. Atom optics includes elements such as diffraction gratings, beam-splitters, mirrors and lenses which manipulate matter waves coherently. We are constructing an atom-beam interferometer for these studies. It is a Mach-Zhender interferometer that splits deBroglie waves of atoms into two physically separate paths, and later combines the waves to produce interference fringes of matter as depicted in the annimation above.

Introduction

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