Focus on modern frontiers of matter wave optics and interferometry
- Author(s)
- Markus Arndt, Aigars Ekers, Wolf von Klitzing, Hendrik Ulbricht
- Abstract
The level of experimental control and the detailed theoretical understanding of matter wave physics have led to a renaissance of experiments testing the very foundations of quantum mechanics and general relativity, as well as to applications in metrology. A variety of interferometric quantum sensors surpasses, or will surpass, the limits of their classical counterparts, for instance in the measurement of frequency and time or forces such as accelerations due to rotation and gravity with applications in basic science, navigation and the search for natural resources. The collection of original articles published in this focus issue of New Journal of Physics is intended as a snapshot of the current research pursued by a number of leading teams working on the development of new matter wave physics, devices and techniques. A number of contributions also stress the close relation between the historic roots of quantum mechanics and aspects of modern quantum information science which are relevant for matter wave physics.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- European Science Foundation - ESF, Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH), University of Southampton
- Journal
- New Journal of Physics
- Volume
- 14
- No. of pages
- 9
- ISSN
- 1367-2630
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/12/125006
- Publication date
- 2012
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 104017 Physical chemistry, 103026 Quantum optics, 210006 Nanotechnology, 103025 Quantum mechanics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b831acd4-a248-4e56-a9a6-14b4347e80eb