Concepts for long-baseline high-mass matter-wave interferometry
- Author(s)
- Filip Kialka, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger, Yaakov Y. Fein, Philipp Geyer, Lukas Mairhofer, Stefan Gerlich, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
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.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- Universität Duisburg-Essen
- Journal
- Physica Scripta
- Volume
- 94
- No. of pages
- 9
- ISSN
- 0031-8949
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/aaf243
- Publication date
- 03-2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/concepts-for-longbaseline-highmass-matterwave-interferometry(dd969439-ca8d-4bcc-a31a-d5210899a797).html