Neutron interferometry
DOI: 10.1063/1.2913855
Diffraction effects at wavelengths on the order of angstroms have been known since Max von Laue’s demonstrations of x‐ray diffraction in 1912. Interference between well‐separated, coherent beams, however, is much more difficult to arrange.
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Samuel A. Werner. University of Missouri, Columbia campus.