In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related...

Greenberger and A. Yasin, "Simultaneous wave and particle knowledge in a neutron interferometer", Physics Letters A 128, 391–4 (1988). Sen, D. (2014). "The uncertainty...

to build interferometers. The first examples of matter interferometers were electron interferometers, later followed by neutron interferometers. Around...

The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light...

interferometer is a large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves. The detector is a Michelson interferometer...

of a neutron star with a black hole. Subsequent gravitational wave observatories Virgo in Italy, and KAGRA in Japan, which both use interferometer arms...

interferometer Acoustic interferometer Atom interferometer Neutron interferometer Ramsey interferometer Mini grail interferometer Aharonov–Bohm effect Interferometric...

A neutron star is the gravitationally collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined...

An atom interferometer uses the wave-like nature of atoms in order to produce interference. In atom interferometers, the roles of matter and light are...

magnetic moments. Neutron reflectometry is a neutron diffraction technique for measuring the structure of thin films. Atom interferometers, similar to optical...

built and constantly improved. The present-day generation of laser interferometers has reached the necessary sensitivity to detect gravitational waves...

in the path of the neutrons, every neutron exits to the interferometer moving to the right and activates the detector. No neutron escapes upwards into...

An astronomical interferometer or telescope array is a set of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a...

An X-ray interferometer is analogous to a neutron interferometer. It has been suggested that it may offer the very highest spatial resolution in astronomy...

studied this way include binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; events such as supernovae; and the formation of...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned European space mission to detect and measure gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric...

2017, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers observed GW170817, a gravitational wave associated with the merger of a binary neutron star (BNS) system in NGC...

An electron interferometer is generates interference with the wave function of electrons to make measurements. Interferometry uses the principal of superposition...

been associated with a spectral signature in the context of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Spectroscopy is a branch of science...

and Sam Werner devised a better way to do the experiment using a neutron interferometer. During a conference at Grenoble in France in 1978, Greenberger...

wave was produced by the last moments of the inspiral of a binary pair of neutron stars, ending with their merger. As of August 2025[update], it is the only...

interferometric gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational...

the tubes are charged instead. It was observed in a gravitational neutron interferometer in 1989 and later by fluxon interference of magnetic vortices in...

fusion. The original object, called the progenitor, either collapses to a neutron star or black hole, or is completely destroyed to form a diffuse nebula...

ground-based gravitational wave observatory. It will consist of two L-shaped interferometers, similar to the LIGO detectors, but with significantly increased arm...

propagate along both paths of the interferometer, but only one packet contains a particle. The field aspect of the neutron is responsible for the interference...

merger of two compact objects such as neutron stars or black holes. Over a span of millions of years, binary neutron stars, and binary black holes lose energy...

ASKAP J1935+2148 (also known as ASKAP J193505.1+214841.0) is a neutron star/magnetar candidate located in the constellation Vulpecula, approximately 15...

limit (or TOV limit) is an upper bound to the mass of cold, non-rotating neutron stars, analogous to the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars. Stars...

the two arms of each interferometer, unlike 90° in a traditional L-shaped layout. 2L configuration uses 2 pairs of interferometers located in two far separated...