Session W5: Quantum Measurement and Quantum Information

8:00 AM–10:12 AM, Saturday, June 9, 2007
TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod A3-A4

Chair: D. Uskov, Louisiana State University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2007.DAMOP.W5.4

Abstract: W5.00004 : Atom interferometry, microscopy, complementarity, and the perfect lens

8:36 AM–8:48 AM

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Authors:

  Barry Sanders
    (University of Calgary)

  Karl-Peter Marzlin
    (University of Calgary)

  Peter Knight
    (Imperial College London)

Development of the `perfect lens' poses an interesting challenge to standard concepts of complementarity manifested in interferometric which-way vs fringe visibility experiments. We show that a `microscope' with a `perfect lens' provides the extremal point of maximum which-way information in atom interferometry, and our theory rigorously connects complementarity in interferometry with the standard position-momentum Heisenberg uncertainty relation.

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