Billiard balls and matter-wave interferometry

The billiard-ball model (BBM) is redeveloped to allow quantitative diagrammatic evaluation of signal parameters associated with optical coherent transient experiments. It is expanded to include the action of external forces and fields as well as to include atomic-beam-type experiments. Matter-wave i...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 1993-08, Vol.48 (2), p.1446-1472
Hauptverfasser:	FRIEDBERG, R, HARTMANN, S. R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	664200 - Spectra of Atoms & Molecules & their Interactions with Photons- (1992-) ATOM COLLISIONS ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS COHERENT RADIATION COLLISIONS ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION Exact sciences and technology FUNCTIONS Fundamental areas of phenomenology (including applications) Instruments, apparatus, components and techniques common to several branches of physics and astronomy Interferometers INTERFEROMETRY MATHEMATICAL MODELS Mechanical effects of light on atoms, molecules, electrons, and ions MOLECULE COLLISIONS Optical instruments, equipment and techniques Optical transient phenomena: quantum beats, photon echo, free-induction decay, dephasings and revivals, optical nutation and self-induced transparency Optics PHOTON COLLISIONS PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS PHOTON-MOLECULE COLLISIONS Physics Quantum optics RADIATIONS TRANSIENTS WAVE FUNCTIONS
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Zusammenfassung:	The billiard-ball model (BBM) is redeveloped to allow quantitative diagrammatic evaluation of signal parameters associated with optical coherent transient experiments. It is expanded to include the action of external forces and fields as well as to include atomic-beam-type experiments. Matter-wave interferometric experiments are examined in the context of the BBM and their relationship to photon-echo experiments is explored.
ISSN:	1050-2947 1094-1622
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.48.1446