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View SchemaHow to measure the wave-function absolute squared of a moving particle by using mirrors
| Authors | Volker Hannstein, Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0607098 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607098 |
| DOI | 10.1209/0295-5075/77/60003 |
| Journal | EPL, 77(2007) 60003 |
Abstract
We consider a slow particle with wave function $\psi_t(\vec{x})$, moving freely in some direction. A mirror is briefly switched on around a time $T$ and its position is scanned. It is shown that the measured reflection probability then allows the determination of $|\psi_T(\vec{x})|^2$. Experimentally available atomic mirrors should make this method applicable to the center-of-mass wave function of atoms with velocities in the cm/s range.
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