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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Exploration Rover MERLIN – Multi Element Radio Linked Interferometer. A seven-telescope radio interferometer MESSENGER – MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment,...

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...

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

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...

an interferometer for detecting gravitational waves. LIGO-Australia was a proposed plan (AIGO Stage II) to install an Advanced LIGO interferometer at...

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...

coherence length can be verified with a shearing interferometer. In X-ray optics, gamma ray optics, and neutron optics, a collimator is a device that filters...

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