A Quantum Ruler for Magnetic Deflectometry

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 challen...

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Autores principales: Mairhofer, Lukas, Eibenberger, Sandra, Shayeghi, Armin, Arndt, Markus
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7513036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33265606
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20070516
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author Mairhofer, Lukas
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description 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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spelling pubmed-75130362020-11-09 A Quantum Ruler for Magnetic Deflectometry Mairhofer, Lukas Eibenberger, Sandra Shayeghi, Armin Arndt, Markus Entropy (Basel) Article 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. MDPI 2018-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7513036/ /pubmed/33265606 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e20070516 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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