Category Archives: Matter-wave optics
Finding the ultimate grating for atomic matter-waves
What happens when you accelerate hydrogen atoms to a breathtaking velocity of 120’000 m/s and shoot them onto the thinnest membrane there is? You get a absolutely fascinating diffraction pattern! In our newest publication we theoretically describe what to expect … Continue reading
Publication in Physical Review Letters
Our manuscript on preparing internally cold beams containing only a single molecular structure was published in Physical Review Letters.
Matter-waves III
In this post we take a look at THE prerequisite for matter-wave optics: how to make a particle behave like a wave.
Spatial separation of molecular conformers with interference
The task to sort molecules can be quite challenging if they are very similar. This is even more the case if you want to sort a single molecular species according to its three-dimensional structure. The problem is that for most … Continue reading
Testing Born’s rule with molecules
Born’s rule is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics. Needless to say that a potential violation of this rule might point to something very interesting happening. In a brand new publication we report about the first explicit test of … Continue reading
Matter-waves II
The second part of the series on matter-waves covers … matter-waves! What is a matter-wave, who came up with the idea, and why is it so hard to observe them? Find the answer here.
Series of posts on matter-wave optics
This week I will start a little series of posts on matter-wave optics, starting from the very basics, that is a phenomenological review of what distinguishes a wave from a particle. Over time I will discuss a number of concepts … Continue reading
