Photon recoil momentum in dispersive media
arXiv:cond-mat/0502014 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.170403
Abstract
A systematic shift of the photon recoil due to the index of refraction of a dilute gas of atoms has been observed. The recoil frequency was determined with a two-pulse light grating interferometer using near-resonant laser light. The results show that the recoil momentum of atoms caused by the absorption of a photon is n\hbar k, where n is the index of refraction of the gas and k is the vacuum wavevector of the photon. This systematic effect must be accounted for in high-precision atom interferometry with light gratings.
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