New avenues for matter-wave-enhanced spectroscopy
- Author(s)
- Jonas Rodewald, Philipp Haslinger, Nadine Doerre, Benjamin A. Stickler, Armin Shayeghi, Klaus Hornberger, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
We present matter-wave interferometry as a tool to advance spectroscopy for a wide class of nanoparticles, clusters and molecules. The high sensitivity of de Broglie interference fringes to external perturbations enables measurements in the limit of an individual particle absorbing only a single photon on average, or even no photon at all. The method allows one to extract structural and electronic information from the loss of the interference contrast. It is minimally invasive and works even for dilute ensembles.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- University of California, Berkeley, Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Journal
- Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
- Volume
- 123
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 0946-2171
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6573-y
- Publication date
- 01-2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/new-avenues-for-matterwaveenhanced-spectroscopy(6df00b60-e46a-424f-b9b1-0e7dc539bfa7).html