A Kapitza-Dirac-Talbot-Lau interferometer for highly polarizable molecules

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 711-715

  Gerlich, Stefan ^a   Hackermüller, Lucia ^a,f   Hornberger, Klaus ^b   Stibor, Alexander ^a,g   Ulbricht, Hendrik ^a   Gring, Michael ^a   Goldfarb, Fabienne ^a,h   Savas, Tim ^c   Müri, Marcel ^d   Mayor, Marcel ^d,e   Arndt, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT ELECTRONS; INTERFEROMETERS; MOLECULAR BEAMS;

CLASSICAL PHYSICS; COMPLEX MOLECULES; COMPLEX OBJECTS; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; POLARIZABLE MOLECULES; TALBOT-LAU INTERFEROMETER; VELOCITY SELECTION;

MOLECULES;

EID: 34948866223     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys701     Document Type: Article

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