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Physical Review Letters -- March 23, 1998 -- Volume 80, Issue 12 pp. 2614-2617

Phase Determination in Spin-Polarized Neutron Specular Reflection

J. Kasper,¹ H. Leeb,¹ and R. Lipperheide²

¹Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10/142, A-1040 Wien, Austria
²Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin, Postfach 390128, D-14091 Berlin, Germany

(Received 6 November 1997)

New spin-polarized neutron specular reflection experiments to determine the moduli and phases of the full reflection matrix (non-spin-flip and spin-flip amplitudes) are proposed. The method makes use of a reference layer and exploits the interference of the spin components of the neutron beam as a function of incident polarization. ©1998 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v80/p2614
PACS: 61.12.Ha, 28.20.-v        Additional Information

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