Generation of neutron Airy beams
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| author | Sarenac, Dusan Lailey, Owen Henderson, Melissa E. Ekinci, Huseyin Clark, Charles W. Cory, David G. DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa Huber, Michael G. White, Jonathan S. Zhernenkov, Kirill Pushin, Dmitry A. |
| author_facet | Sarenac, Dusan Lailey, Owen Henderson, Melissa E. Ekinci, Huseyin Clark, Charles W. Cory, David G. DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa Huber, Michael G. White, Jonathan S. Zhernenkov, Kirill Pushin, Dmitry A. |
| contents | The Airy wave packet is a solution to the potential-free Schrodinger equation that exhibits remarkable properties such as self-acceleration, non-diffraction, and self-healing. Although Airy beams are now routinely realized with electromagnetic waves and electrons, the implementation with neutrons has remained elusive due to small transverse coherence lengths, low fluence rates, and the absence of neutron lenses. In this work, we overcome these challenges through a holographic approach and present the first experimental demonstration of neutron Airy beams. The presented techniques pave the way for fundamental physics studies with Airy beams of non-elementary particles, the development of novel neutron optics components, and the realization of neutron Airy-vortex beams. |
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arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2407_19384 |
| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | Generation of neutron Airy beams Sarenac, Dusan Lailey, Owen Henderson, Melissa E. Ekinci, Huseyin Clark, Charles W. Cory, David G. DeBeer-Schmitt, Lisa Huber, Michael G. White, Jonathan S. Zhernenkov, Kirill Pushin, Dmitry A. Applied Physics Optics The Airy wave packet is a solution to the potential-free Schrodinger equation that exhibits remarkable properties such as self-acceleration, non-diffraction, and self-healing. Although Airy beams are now routinely realized with electromagnetic waves and electrons, the implementation with neutrons has remained elusive due to small transverse coherence lengths, low fluence rates, and the absence of neutron lenses. In this work, we overcome these challenges through a holographic approach and present the first experimental demonstration of neutron Airy beams. The presented techniques pave the way for fundamental physics studies with Airy beams of non-elementary particles, the development of novel neutron optics components, and the realization of neutron Airy-vortex beams. |
| title | Generation of neutron Airy beams |
| topic | Applied Physics Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19384 |