A. V. Turlapov, “Kapitza–Dirac diffraction of atoms”, UFN, 2024, Volume 194, Number 12,Pages <nobr>1326

130th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF P.L. KAPITZA. CONFEENCES AND SYMPOSIA

Kapitza–Dirac diffraction of atoms

A. V. Turlapov^ab

^a A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod
^b Federal State Unitary Enterprise Russian Metrological Institute of Technical Physics and Radioengineering (FSUE VNIIFTRI), pos. Mendeleevo, Solnechnogorskii raion, Moscow region

Abstract: Kapitza and Dirac predicted the diffraction of an electron on a standing optical wave. The roles of light and matter here changed places relative to classical optics. Later, ideas about the diffraction of matter on an electromagnetic wave were developed in atomic physics. The diffraction of atoms has been observed in various forms and is used in atomic interferometers.

Keywords: interference of matter waves, stimulated scattering, photon recoil momentum.

PACS: 01.65.+g, 03.75.-b, 37.20.+k

Received: September 3, 2024
Accepted: July 10, 2024

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2024.07.039758