Neutron interferometer is in effect an enormously powerful amplifier that compounds microscopic events so that they can be monitored on the macroscopic scale. Neutrons interfere in the same way that water waves and light waves do. When two trains of waves of equal amplitude meet, they simply superimpose. When they are exactly in phase, they interfere constructively and so the resuiting amplitude is twice as great.
Neutron interferometer is in effect an enormously powerful amplifier that compounds microscopic events so that they can be monitored on the macroscopic scale. Neutrons interfere in the same way that water waves and light waves do. When two trains of waves of equal amplitude meet, they simply superimpose. When they are exactly in phase, they interfere constructively and so the resuiting amplitude is twice as great.
Neutron interferometer is in effect an enormously powerful amplifier that compounds microscopic events so that they can be monitored on the macroscopic scale. Neutrons interfere in the same way that water waves and light waves do. When two trains of waves of equal amplitude meet, they simply superimpose. When they are exactly in phase, they interfere constructively and so the resuiting amplitude is twice as great.