Quantum interferometry with complex molecules
- Author(s)
- Markus Arndt, Klaus Hornberger
- Abstract
This chapter reviews recent experiments on matter wave interferometry with large molecules. Starting from an elementary introduction to matter wave physics we discuss far-field diffraction and near-field interferometry with thermally excited many-body systems. We describe the constraints imposed by decoherence and dephasing effects, and present an outlook to the future challenges in macromolecule and cluster interferometry.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Pages
- 103-130
- No. of pages
- 28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3254/978-1-60750-039-1-103
- Publication date
- 2009
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/quantum-interferometry-with-complex-molecules(e36dcf96-6814-451b-85cd-35cd849e2e17).html