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General formulation of spin rotations in neutron interferometry

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Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter

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Starting from the fact, that different rotations can lead to states with the same polarization but different phases the expressions of intensity and polarization of the forward diffracted beam after a Laue-case single crystal neutron interferometer are derived for the general case of phase shifts and spin rotations in both beam paths of the interferometer. A basic and instructive experiment where the polarization of the emerging beam is rotated by phase shift is discussed.

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Zeilinger, A. General formulation of spin rotations in neutron interferometry. Z Physik B 25, 97–100 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01343314

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