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130th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF P.L. KAPITZA. CONFEENCES AND SYMPOSIA
Kapitza–Dirac diffraction of atoms
A. V. Turlapovab a A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod
b Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Metrological
Institute of Technical Physics and Radioengineering (FSUE VNIIFTRI), pos. Mendeleevo, Solnechnogorskii raion, Moscow region
Abstract:
Kapitza and Dirac predicted the diffraction of an electron on a standing optical wave. The roles of light and matter here changed places relative to classical optics. Later, ideas about the diffraction of matter on an electromagnetic wave were developed in atomic physics. The diffraction of atoms has been observed in various forms and is used in atomic interferometers.
Keywords:
interference of matter waves, stimulated scattering, photon recoil momentum.
Received: September 3, 2024 Accepted: July 10, 2024
Citation:
A. V. Turlapov, “Kapitza–Dirac diffraction of atoms”, UFN, 194:12 (2024), 1326–1329; Phys. Usp., 67:12 (2024), 1254–1256
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https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/ufn15964 https://www.mathnet.ru/eng/ufn/v194/i12/p1326
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