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    In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related...
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    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...
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    to build interferometers. The first examples of matter interferometers were electron interferometers, later followed by neutron interferometers. Around...
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    A neutron star is the gravitationally collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined...
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    The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light...
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    of a neutron star with a black hole. Subsequent gravitational wave observatories Virgo in Italy, and KAGRA in Japan, which both use interferometer arms...
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    interferometer is a large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves. The detector is a Michelson interferometer...
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  • interferometer Acoustic interferometer Atom interferometer Neutron interferometer Ramsey interferometer Mini grail interferometer Aharonov–Bohm effect Interferometric...
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    An astronomical interferometer or telescope array is a set of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a...
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  • magnetic moments. Neutron reflectometry is a neutron diffraction technique for measuring the structure of thin films. Atom interferometers, similar to optical...
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    built and constantly improved. The present-day generation of laser interferometers has reached the necessary sensitivity to detect gravitational waves...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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  • An electron interferometer is generates interference with the wave function of electrons to make measurements. Interferometry uses the principal of superposition...
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  • the tubes are charged instead. It was observed in a gravitational neutron interferometer in 1989 and later by fluxon interference of magnetic vortices in...
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  • studied this way include binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; events such as supernovae; and the formation of...
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    The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned European space mission to detect and measure gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric...
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    2017, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers observed GW170817, a gravitational wave associated with the merger of a binary neutron star (BNS) system in NGC...
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  • interferometric gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational...
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    been associated with a spectral signature in the context of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Spectroscopy is a branch of science...
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    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...
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  • Exploration Rover MERLIN – Multi Element Radio Linked Interferometer. A seven-telescope radio interferometer MESSENGER – MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment,...
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  • 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...
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    GW170817 (category Neutron stars)
    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...
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    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...
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  • AIGO (category Interferometers)
    an interferometer for detecting gravitational waves. LIGO-Australia was a proposed plan (AIGO Stage II) to install an Advanced LIGO interferometer at...
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  • 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...
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  • Collimator (category Neutron instrumentation)
    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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  • Allaine (1988). "Simultaneous wave and particle knowledge in a neutron interferometer". Phys. Lett. A. 128 (8): 391–394. Bibcode:1988PhLA..128..391G....
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