Definitions for neutron interferometer
neu·tron in·ter·fer·om·e·ter

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1. neutron interferometernoun

   a device capable of diffracting neutrons and studying their wavelike characteristics

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1. Neutron interferometer

   In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related phenomena, to be explored. Interferometry inherently depends on the wave nature of the object. As pointed out by de Broglie in his PhD thesis, particles, including neutrons, can behave like waves. The wave functions of the individual interferometer paths are created and recombined coherently which needs the application of dynamical theory of diffraction. Neutron interferometers are the counterpart of X-ray interferometers and are used to study quantities or benefits related to thermal neutron radiation. Neutron interferometers are used to determine minute quantum-mechanical effects to the neutron wave, such as studies of the ⁕Aharonov–Bohm effect ⁕gravity acting on an elementary particle, the neutron ⁕rotation of the earth acting on a quantum system they can be applied for ⁕neutron phase imaging ⁕tests of the dynamical theory of diffraction Like X-ray interferometers, neutron interferometers are typically made from a single large crystal of silicon, often 10 to 30 or more centimeters in diameter and 20 to 60 cm or more in length. Modern semiconductor technology allows large single-crystal silicon boules to be easily grown. Since the boule is a single crystal, the atoms in the boule are precisely aligned, to within small fractions of a nanometer or an angstrom, over the entire boule. The interferometer is created by removing all but three slices of silicon, held in perfect alignment by a base. Neutrons impinge on the first slice, where, by diffraction from the crystalline lattice, they separate into two beams. At the second slice, they are diffracted again, with two beams continuing on to the third slice. At the third slice, the beams recombine, interfering constructively or destructively, completing the interferometer. Without the precise, angstrom-level alignment of the three slices, the interference results would not be meaningful.

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References

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