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The general class of experiments designed to emphasize the wavelike character of neutrons. Like all elementary particles, neutrons can be made to...

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Figure 1.Diffraction pattern made by passing a collimated neutron beam through a two-slit system. The solid line is the prediction of scalar diffraction theory. (After A. Zeilinger et al., 1981 Symposium on Neutron Scattering, Argonne National Laboratory, American Institute of Physics, 1962)

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Figure 2.Neutron interferometer. (a) Oblique view. (b) Top view. (After D. M. Greenberger, The neutron interferometer, Rev. Mod. Phys., 55:875–905, 1983)

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Figure 3.Variation of counting rate in one counter with rotation angle f in the gravity experiment, due to phase shift resulting from gravitational potential difference. Neutron wavelength was 0.106 nm. (After J.-L. Staudenmann et al., Gravity and inertia in quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev., A21:1419–1438, 1980)

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