Wave-particle duality of C60 molecules

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6754, 1999, Pages 680-682

  Arndt, Markus ^a   Nairz, Olaf ^a   Vos Andreae, Julian ^a   Keller, Claudia ^a   Van Der Zouw, Gerbrand ^a   Zellinger, Anton ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; INTERFEROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0033554694     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44348     Document Type: Article

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