Neutrons for Science and Industry

Structured Waves: From Matter to Light

by Prof. Dmitry Pushin (University of Waterloo, Canada)

HS 3 (Physics Department)

HS 3

Physics Department


Neutrons are important probes of mater and quantum physics. They are particularly powerful at characterizing magnetic structures. In order to extend the applications of neutron physics as a quantum probes/sensors we have developed methods based on Quantum Information Processing for preparing structured waves such as orbital and spin-orbit states of neutrons. Such states may be prepared for the beam as a whole, or with reference to the coherence length of the neutron wavepacket, which is much smaller than the width of useful beams. I will describe experiments to prepare and characterize neutron beams with specific orbital and spin-orbit structure based on neutron interferometry and will show how we can apply these methods to other type of probes such as light.

Organized by

Dr. Alexandros Koutsioumpas
Dr. Markos Skoulatos