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Simulations for light-pulse atom interferometry
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propagate method in prop class not time symmetric #54

Closed savowe closed 4 years ago

savowe commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/bleykauf/aisim/blob/3e186208d59be49e3dcbe25c954299cb3477ddf6/aisim/prop.py#L35

The propagate method is not time symmetric and therefore not unitary if internal and free propagators are combined. We should change the propagate method from freeprop(Delta t) -> internalprop(Delta t) to freeprop(Delta t/2) -> internalprop(Delta t) -> ifreeprop(Delta t/2)