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This patent describes a proposed system for producing coherent matterwave beams from multiple streams of charged particles. Its beam-generating units feed channels where the streams would combine, with phase synchronization attributed to a magnetic vector potential. The description invokes the Aharonov–Bohm effect to argue that particle phases could align without exchanging energy. It proposes operation without cryogenic cooling and extends the idea to fermions as well as bosons. For synchronization estimates, it uses a classical Kuramoto-type approximation and acknowledges the difficulty of a complete quantum-mechanical treatment. The granted claims specify component and field arrangements; the document does not report an experimental demonstration of the proposed coherent beam.

Systems and methods for generating coherent matterwave beams