Experimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for fullerene molecules
- Author(s)
- Olaf Nairz, Markus Arndt, Anton Zeilinger
- Abstract
An experiment was performed to investigate in a quantitative way the uncertainty relation upon diffraction at a single slit for a molecule as complex, massive, and hot as the fullerene C70 (m=840 amu) emerging from the oven with an internal and translational temperature of 900 K. Molecular momentum spread increased after passage through a narrow slit with a variable width down to 70 nm.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- Paracelsus Medizinische Privatuniversität (PMU)
- Journal
- Physical Review A
- Volume
- 65
- No. of pages
- 4
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032109
- Publication date
- 2002
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5e803d1f-896d-454a-9f27-d7c7ec25a8ea