T^{3} Stern-Gerlach Matter-Wave Interferometer.

@article{Amit2019T3SM,
  title={T^\{3\} Stern-Gerlach Matter-Wave Interferometer.},
  author={O. Amit and Y. Margalit and O. Dobkowski and Zhenhua Zhou and Y. Japha and Mike Zimmermann and M. A. Efremov and F. A. Narducci and E M Rasel and Wolfgang P. Schleich and Ron Folman},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2019},
  volume={123 8},
  pages={
          083601
        }
}
We present a unique matter-wave interferometer whose phase scales with the cube of the time the atom spends in the interferometer. Our scheme is based on a full-loop Stern-Gerlach interferometer incorporating four magnetic field gradient pulses to create a state-dependent force. In contrast to typical atom interferometers that make use of laser light for the splitting and recombination of the wave packets, this realization uses no light and can therefore serve as a high-precision surface probe… 
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