In physics, a neutron interferometer is an interferometer capable of diffracting neutrons, allowing the wave-like nature of neutrons, and other related...

A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive supergiant star. It results from the supernova explosion of a massive star—combined with gravitational...

interferometer Acoustic interferometer Atom interferometer Neutron interferometer Ramsey interferometer Mini grail interferometer Aharonov–Bohm effect Interferometric...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational...

to build interferometers. The first examples of matter interferometers were electron interferometers, later followed by neutron interferometers. Around...

Greenberger and A. Yasin, "Simultaneous wave and particle knowledge in a neutron interferometer", Physics Letters A 128, 391–4 (1988). Sen, D. (2014). "The uncertainty...

The Virgo interferometer is a large-scale instrument for detecting gravitational waves. It is in Santo Stefano a Macerata, near the city of Pisa, Italy...

The Mach–Zehnder interferometer is a device used to determine the relative phase shift variations between two collimated beams derived by splitting light...

An Electron interferometer is an interferometer which generates interference with the wave function of electrons to make measurements. Interferometry...

magnetic moments. Neutron reflectometry is a neutron diffraction technique for measuring the structure of thin films. Atom interferometers, similar to optical...

An atom interferometer uses the wave-like nature of atoms in order to produce interference. In atom interferometers, the roles of matter and light are...

An X-ray interferometer is analogous to a neutron interferometer. It has been suggested that it may offer the very highest spatial resolution in astronomy...

built and constantly improved. The present-day generation of laser interferometers has reached the necessary sensitivity to detect gravitational waves...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space probe to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric...

interferometric gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational...

studied this way include binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes; events such as supernovae; and the formation of...

2017, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers observed GW170817, a gravitational wave associated with the merger of two neutron stars in NGC 4993, an elliptical...

An astronomical interferometer or telescope array is a set of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a...

the tubes are charged instead. It was observed in a gravitational neutron interferometer in 1989 and later by fluxon interference of magnetic vortices in...

and Sam Werner devised a better way to do the experiment using a neutron interferometer. During a conference at Grenoble in France in 1978, Greenberger...

in the path of the neutrons, every neutron exits to the interferometer moving to the right and activates the detector. No neutron escapes upwards into...

diffraction Neutron economy Neutron emission Neutron flux Neutron generator Neutron interferometer Neutron magnetic moment Neutron moderator Neutron monitor...

fusion. The original object, called the progenitor, either collapses to a neutron star or black hole, or is completely destroyed to form a diffuse nebula...

produced by the last moments of the inspiral process of a binary pair of neutron stars, ending with their merger. It was the first GW observation to be...

coherence length can be verified with a shearing interferometer. In X-ray optics, gamma ray optics, and neutron optics, a collimator is a device that filters...

in a Ramsey interferometer. Photons, atoms, electrons, neutrons, and molecules have exhibited interference in double-slit interferometers. Degree of coherence...

merger of two compact objects such as neutron stars or black holes. Over a span of millions of years, binary neutron stars, and binary black holes lose energy...

been associated with a spectral signature in the context of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Spectroscopy is a branch of science...

are several ground-based laser interferometers which span several miles/kilometers, including: the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory...

from spinning neutron stars in data from gravitational-wave detectors, from large radio telescopes, and from a gamma-ray telescope. Neutron stars are detected...