DOI: 10.1051/jp2:1994103
J. Phys. II France 4 (1994) 1999-2027
The Feynman path integral approach to atomic interferometry. A tutorial
Pippa Storey and Claude Cohen-TannoudjiCollège de France and Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
(Received 22 September 1994, accepted 26 September 1994)
Abstract
Many problems of current interest in atomic interferometry lend themselves to a path integral treatment. We present a practical
guide to solving such problems, taking as examples the gravitational experiments of Kasevich and Chu, and the atomic equivalents
of the Sagnac and Aharonov-Bohm effects.
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