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Quantum reflection of antihydrogen from nanoporous media

Authors :
Dufour, G.
Guérout, R.
Lambrecht, A.
Nesvizhevsky, V. V.
Reynaud, S.
Voronin, A. Yu.
Source :
Physical Review A 87 (2013) 022506
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

We study quantum reflection of antihydrogen atoms from nanoporous media due to the Casimir-Polder (CP) potential. Using a simple effective medium model, we show a dramatic increase of the probability of quantum reflection of antihydrogen atoms if the porosity of the medium increases. We discuss the limiting case of reflections at small energies, which have interesting applications for trapping and guiding antihydrogen using material walls.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
Physical Review A 87 (2013) 022506
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1212.5678
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.022506