Quantum Information Enabled Neutron Interferometry
Joachim Nsofini, IQC
In the quest to explore big quantum systems, there have been opportunities to explore smaller quantum system like the neutron interferometer. A neutron interferometer (NI) has proven to be a useful tool in the study of quantum effects ranging from experiments with single particle interference to measuring quantities of significant importance in condensed-matter and Standard Model physics.
However being an indispensable tool, neutron interferometry faces several challenges because of the neutron coupling to environmental conditions like mechanical vibration and temperature. For these reasons, I will focus on two things. First, developing a better understanding of how the coherence in an NI is affected by various environmental factors both external and internal, and hen looking for ways to reduce these effects. The external factors include mechanical vibrational noise and the internal factors include phases resulting from momentum distribution and crystal imperfections. Second, looking for possible applications of NI to study matter by developing a scheme to realized the spin-orbit states of a neutron wave packet