A Quantum Ruler for Magnetic Deflectometry

Overview

Journal Entropy (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2020 Dec 3

PMID 33265606

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Authors

Lukas Mairhofer

Sandra Eibenberger

Armin Shayeghi

Markus Arndt

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Abstract

Matter-wave near-field interference can imprint a nano-scale fringe pattern onto a molecular beam, which allows observing its shifts in the presence of even very small external forces. Here we demonstrate quantum interference of the pre-vitamin 7-dehydrocholesterol and discuss the conceptual challenges of magnetic deflectometry in a near-field interferometer as a tool to explore photochemical processes within molecules whose center of mass is quantum delocalized.

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