Role of source coherence in atom interferometery
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Hardman, Kyle
Noschang Kuhn, Carlos
McDonald, Gordon
Debs, John
Bennetts, Shayne
Close, John
Robins, Nicholas
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American Physical Society
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The role of source cloud spatial coherence in a Mach-Zehnder-type atom interferometer is experimentally investigated. The visibility and contrast of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and three thermal sources with varying spatial coherence are compared as
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Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics