Neutron Interferometry and Neutron Schrodinger Wave Optics

中子干涉测量和中子薛定谔波动光学

• 批准号: 9024608
• 负责人: Samuel Werner
• 金额: $ 30.37万
• 依托单位: University of Missouri-Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-05-01 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9024608&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Neutron; Interferometry; Schrodinger; Wave; Optics

A program of development and refinement of facilities for neutron interferometry is carried out at the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR) and at the NIST Research Reactor's Cold Neutron Research Facility, where a new neutron interferometry station will be built as a collaborative program. These facilities will be applied to the study of various aspects of neutron Schroedinger Wave Optics, including the following: 1) Aharonov-Casher topological phase shift; 2) Wave-packet reconstruction with a crystal analyzer; 3) Scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect; 4) Development of large-scale interferometers; 5) Search for quaternions in quantum mechanics; 6) Gravitationally-induced quantum interference; 7) Michelson-Morley experiment with neutrons; 8) Search for phase shift due to the coupling of neutron spin to rotation; 9) Wheeler delayed-choice experiment; and 10) Effect of the moon and sun upon quantum interference.

密苏里大学研究堆（MURR）和NIST研究堆的冷中子研究设施正在进行中子干涉测量设备的开发和改进计划，其中将建立一个新的中子干涉测量站作为合作计划。这些设备将应用于中子薛定谔波光学的各个方面的研究，包括：1)Aharonov-Casher拓扑相移；2)用晶体分析仪进行波包重构；3)标量Aharonov-Bohm效应；4)大型干涉仪的研制；5)寻找量子力学中的四元数；6)引力诱导量子干涉；中子的迈克尔逊-莫雷实验；8)寻找中子自旋与旋转耦合引起的相移；9)惠勒延迟选择实验；10)月球和太阳对量子干涉的影响。