Interference and Interferometry

In General > s.a. photons; waves.
* For light: 1801, Young's double slit experiment; 1909, Seen by G I Taylor with weak light, one photon going through at a time.
* Interference in time: A plot of electron energies shows an interference pattern when the electrons could have been emitted in one of two "slits" in time; In the Paulus et al experiment, laser pulses with two maxima passed through a gas of Ar atoms.
@ Interference in time: news pw(05)mar [experiment]; Horwitz PLA(06)qp/05 [significance], FP(07).
> And gravity: see gravitational radiation; photon phenomenology in quantum gravity.
> Related topics: see number theory [use for factoring numbers].

In Quantum Mechanics > s.a. classical limit; decoherence; experiments in quantum mechanics; quantum information; Superposition Principle.
@ General references: Schulman AJP(69)dec; Horne et al PRL(89), Nat(90)oct [two-particle]; Rodgers pw(02)sep [double slit with electrons]; Braun & Georgeot PRA(06) [quantitative measure]; Nitta & Kudo PRA(08) [time of arrival in double slit]; Sanz & Miret-Artes JPA(08)-a0806 [in terms of trajectories]; Silverman 08; Camacho & Camacho-Galván RPP(07)-a0811 [testing fundamental physics]; Rave FP(08) [interpretation in terms of a phaselike quantity]; Chou et al PRL(09) [hydrodynamic view].
@ Single particle: Frisch CP(65), reprint CP(09); Grangier et al EPL(86) [single photon]; Scarani & Suarez AJP(98)aug [rev].
@ Triple-slit interference: Ududec et al FP-a0909 [and structure of quantum theory]; > s.a. pilot-wave interpretation.
@ Afshar's version: Afshar in(05); Drezet qp/05, Steuernagel FP(07), Kastner FP(09)-a0801 [and complementarity]; Flores a0803 [modified version], FP(08)-a0802 [reply to comments]; > s.a. Complementarity.

Interferometry > s.a. molecular physics; neutrons.
@ Matter waves: Wang et al a0808 [detecting translation speed?]; Marzlin et al PRA(08) [complementarity and uncertainty relations].
@ Atomic: Clauser PhyB(88) [as accelerometers]; Bordeé PLA(89); Carnal & Mlynek PRL(91); Keith et al PRL(91); Kasevich & Chu PRL(91) [photon beam as splitter]; von Borzeszkowski & Mensky PLA(01), Yurtsever qp/01, Mensky PLA(01) [entangled atoms]; Vuskovic et al qp/01; Mathevet et al CQG(02) [non-Newtonian gravitational potentials]; Chiao & Speliotopoulos IJMPD(03) [and spacetime curvature]; Fray et al PRL(04) [and equivalence principle tests]; Miffre et al qp/06/PS [rev]; Dowling et al PRA(06)ap [atom and molecule]; Dimopoulos et al PRL(07)gq/06, PRD(08)-a0802 [and tests of general relativity]; Pereira Dos Santos & Landragin pw(07)dec; Cronin et al RMP(09)-a0712 [rev]; > s.a. decoherence, gravitational constant, gravitational-wave detection, quantum-gravity phenomenology.
@ Atomic, in space: Jentsch et al GRG(04) [HYPER satellite mission]; news pw(06)sep [GAUGE mission proposal].

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