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Photon recoil momentum in dispersive media
Gretchen K. Campbell ; Aaron E. Leanhardt ; Jongchul Mun ; Micah Boyd ; Erik W. Streed ; Wolfgang Ketterle ; David E. Pritchard ;
Date:	1 Feb 2005
Subject:	Other \| cond-mat.other
Abstract:	A systematic shift of the photon recoil due to the index of refraction of a dilute gas of atoms has been observed. The recoil frequency was determined with a two-pulse light grating interferometer using near-resonant laser light. The results show that the recoil momentum of atoms caused by the absorption of a photon is nhbar k, where n is the index of refraction of the gas and k is the vacuum wavevector of the photon. This systematic effect must be accounted for in high-precision atom interferometry with light gratings.
Source:	arXiv, cond-mat/0502014
Other source:	[GID 888533] pmid15904272
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