The Interferometer for Testing Orbital Angular Momentum for Neutrons (IMAGE)
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An experiment by a team of researchers led from the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing shows, for the first time, that a wave property of neutrons, Orbital Angular Momentum, can be controlled. This newfound control of neutron OAM states means that researchers can now use neutron OAM beams to see inside materials that optical, x-ray or electron OAM beams can't penetrate. Pushin's experiment uses neutrons created by a nuclear reactor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and passes them through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.
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