PRECISION-MEASUREMENT OF THE PHOTON RECOIL OF AN ATOM USING ATOMIC INTERFEROMETRY

Authors
WEISS DS YOUNG BC CHU S
Citation
Ds. Weiss et al., PRECISION-MEASUREMENT OF THE PHOTON RECOIL OF AN ATOM USING ATOMIC INTERFEROMETRY, Physical review letters, 70(18), 1993, pp. 2706-2709
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
70
Issue
18
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2706 - 2709
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1993)70:18<2706:POTPRO>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
The atomic recoil from the absorption of up to 60 photons is measured using an atom interferometer. We determine HBAR/m(Cs) with a precision of 10(-7) in 2 h of integration time.