Abstract
We compare a conventional Mach–Zehnder light-pulse atom interferometer based on diffractive mirrors with one that uses specular reflection. In contrast to diffractive mirrors that generate a symmetric configuration, specular mirrors realized, for example, by evanescent fields lead under the influence of gravity to an asymmetric geometry. In such an arrangement the interferometer phase contains nonrelativistic signatures of proper time.
- Received 19 September 2018
- Revised 12 December 2018
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013627
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