Phys. Rev. A 69, 033607 (2004) [8 pages]Wave mechanics of a two-wire atomic beam splitter
Daniele C. E. Bortolotti and John L. Bohn * Received 29 August 2003; published 18 March 2004 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 of the beam splitter, gathering quantitative information about mode mixing, splitting ratios, and reflection and transmission probabilities. ©2004 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.033607 * Electronic address: bohn@murphy.colorado.edu [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 3 ] |
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