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Observing build up of geometric phase in an adiabatic RF flipper with the amplitude of its rotating field. / Kraan, W. H.; Grigoriev, S. V.; Rekveldt, M. T.
In: Physica B: Condensed Matter, Vol. 406, No. 12, 06.2011, p. 2381-2384.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Observing build up of geometric phase in an adiabatic RF flipper with the amplitude of its rotating field
AU - Kraan, W. H.
AU - Grigoriev, S. V.
AU - Rekveldt, M. T.
N1 - Funding Information: One of the authors (S.V.G.) did this work as a guest scientist, having received a grant from TU-Delft for the first half of 2009. The work is supported in part by the RFBR (project No. 09-02-01023).
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - To demonstrate that adiabatic RF flippers impose an inherent geometric phase on the neutron polarization vector, we built a NSE setup consisting of two pairs of such flippers in a pulsed neutron beam. As is well known, the combined gradient and RF fields in each flipper - in the rotating frame - behave as a rotating field. The amplitude of this field in the first three flippers was kept maximum. For various amplitudes of the rotating field in the remaining flipper we measured the NSE pattern. Besides the shift of the NSE-point due to the variation of the dynamic phase, the NSE patterns show the development of the geometric phase.
AB - To demonstrate that adiabatic RF flippers impose an inherent geometric phase on the neutron polarization vector, we built a NSE setup consisting of two pairs of such flippers in a pulsed neutron beam. As is well known, the combined gradient and RF fields in each flipper - in the rotating frame - behave as a rotating field. The amplitude of this field in the first three flippers was kept maximum. For various amplitudes of the rotating field in the remaining flipper we measured the NSE pattern. Besides the shift of the NSE-point due to the variation of the dynamic phase, the NSE patterns show the development of the geometric phase.
KW - Adiabatic RF flipper
KW - Geometric phase
KW - Polarised neutron beam
KW - Precession
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physb.2010.10.082
DO - 10.1016/j.physb.2010.10.082
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79957467203
VL - 406
SP - 2381
EP - 2384
JO - Physica B: Condensed Matter
JF - Physica B: Condensed Matter
SN - 0921-4526
IS - 12
ER -
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