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Chinese Physics Letters

A Scheme of Interferometric Measurement of an Atomic Wave Function

Zheng-Dong Liu, Shi-Yao Zhu, Yu Lin, Liang Zeng, Qiannan Pan

Published Mar 1, 2000• 5 citations
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Abstract

A new method to measure an atomic wave function is discussed. It effectively solves the problem of an initially random phase of a travelling-wave laser beam. The relationship between the measured data and the atomic wave function is presented, and the wave function's reconstruction procedure is also analyzed.
DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/17/3/004

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