Demonstration of the temporal matter-wave Talbot effect for trapped matter waves
Mark, Manfred J and Haller, Elmar and Danzl, Johann G and Lauber, Katharina and Gustavsson, Mattias and Naegerl, Hanns-Christoph (2011) Demonstration of the temporal matter-wave Talbot effect for trapped matter waves. New Journal of Physics, 13. 085008. ISSN 1367-2630
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Abstract
We demonstrate the temporal Talbot effect for trapped matter waves using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. We investigate the phase evolution of an array of essentially non-interacting matter waves and observe matter-wave collapse and revival in the form of a Talbot interference pattern. By using long expansion times, we image momentum space with sub-recoil resolution, allowing us to observe fractional Talbot fringes up to tenth order.
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Mark, Manfred J, Haller, Elmar
Item type: Article ID code: 43331 Dates: DateEvent10 August 2011PublishedKeywords: Talbot effect , trapped matter waves, optics, ultracold atoms, optical lattice, Optics. Light, Physics and Astronomy(all) Subjects: Science > Physics > Optics. Light Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 26 Mar 2013 10:39 Last modified: 27 Jan 2021 08:50 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/43331