Atom interferometry, microscopy, complementarity, and the perfect lens

ORAL

Abstract

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.

*Supported by iCORE, CIAR, NSERC, and EPSRC

Authors

  • Barry C. Sanders

    • University of Calgary
    • Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary
    • The University of Calgary
    • IQIS University of Calgary
    • IQIS, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
    • IQIS, University of Calgary
  • Peter Marzlin

    • University of Calgary
    • IQIS, University of Calgary
    • Institute for Quantum Information Science
    • IQIS, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
  • Peter Knight

    • Imperial College London