A roadmap for universal high-mass matter-wave interferometry
- Author(s)
- Filip Kiałka, Yaakov Y. Fein, Sebastian Pedalino, Stefan Gerlich, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
Creating quantum superposition states of bodies with increasing mass and complexity is an exciting and important challenge. Demonstrating such superpositions is vital for understanding how classical observations arise from the underlying quantum physics. Here, we discuss how recent progress in macromolecule interferometry can be combined with the state of the art in cluster physics to push the mass record for matter-wave interference with wide state separation by 3 to 4 orders of magnitude. We show how near-field interferometers in different configurations can achieve this goal for a wide range of particle materials with strongly varying properties. This universality will become important in advanced tests of wave function collapse and of other modifications of quantum mechanics, as well as in the search for light dark matter and in tests of gravity with composite quantum systems.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- Journal
- AVS Quantum Science
- Volume
- 4
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 2639-0213
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1116/5.0080940
- Publication date
- 04-2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103044 Cosmology
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/a-roadmap-for-universal-highmass-matterwave-interferometry(e537fbc4-e23c-4309-b05a-b8a4ca63c4ca).html