Billiard balls and matter-wave interferometry
Richard M. Friedberg, Sven R. Hartmann · Physical Review A · 1993
The billiard-ball model (BBM) is redeveloped to allow quantitative diagrammatic evaluation of signal parameters associated with optical coherent transient experiments. It is expanded to include the action of external forces and fields as well as to include atomic-beam-type experiments. Matter-wave interferometric experiments are examined in the context of the BBM and their relationship to photon-echo experiments is explored.