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URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42269
URL: http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4226/
Henkel, Carsten ;
Courtois, Jean-Yves ;
Aspect, Alain
Atomic diffraction by a thin phase grating
Kurzfassung in Englisch
We present a semiclassical perturbation method for the description of atomic diffraction by a weakly modulated potential. It proceeds in a way similar to the treatment of light diffraction by a thin phase grating, and consists in calculating the atomic wavefunction by means of action integrals along the classical trajectories of the atoms in the absence of the modulated part of the potential. The capabilities and the validity condition of the method are illustrated on the well-known case of atomic diffraction by a Gaussian standing wave. We prove that in this situation the perturbation method is equivalent to the Raman-Nath approximation, and we point out that the usually-considered Raman-Nath validity condition can lead to inaccuracies in the evaluation of the phases of the diffraction amplitudes. The method is also applied to the case of an evanescent wave reflection grating, and an analytical expression for the diffraction pattern at any incidence angle is obtained for the first time. Finally, the application of the method to other situations is briefly discussed.
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Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
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Physik |
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c Postprint |
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Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe, ISSN 1866-8372 |
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paper 101 |
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Journal de Physique 4 (1994) 11, S. 1955-1974 |
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Englisch |
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1994 |
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29.04.2010 |
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The preprint is available at ArXiv.org:
Atomic diffraction by a thin phase grating; In: Journal de Physique. - 4 (1994) 11, S. 1955-1974
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