Concepts for long-baseline, high-mass matter-wave interferometry
- Designing experiments which delocalize ever more complex and more massive particles requires a quantitative assessment of new interferometer configurations. Here, we introduce a figure of merit which quantifies the difference between a genuine quantum interference pattern and a classical shadow and use it to compare a number of near-field interferometer schemes. This allows us to identify the most promising setups for future tests of the quantum superposition principle, and to discuss the perspectives of interferometry with complex molecules and clusters.
| Author: | Filip Kialka, Benjamin Stickler, Klaus Hornberger, Yaakov Fein, Philipp Geyer, Lukas Mairhofer, Stefan Gerlich, Markus Arndt |
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| Parent Title (English): | Physica Scripta |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Completed Date: | 2019/02/15 |
| Responsibility for metadata: | Fachhochschule Technikum Wien |
| Release Date: | 2021/12/19 |
| GND Keyword: | Matter wave optics; Meteorology; Quantum optics in phase space |
| Issue: | 94, 2019 |
| Publish on Website: | 1 |
| Open Access: | 1 |
| Reviewed: | 0 |
| Department: | Department Angewandte Mathematik und Physik |
| Research Focus: | Sonstiges |
| Projects: | Import |
| Studienjahr: | 2019/2020 |
