Particle-wave discrimination in Poisson spot experiments

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Reisinger, T ^a   Braceo, G ^a,b   Holst, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL PARTICLE; DE BROGLIE WAVES; DIFFRACTION PROPERTY; FRESNEL DIFFRACTION; MASSIVE PARTICLES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; SPOT EXPERIMENTS; VAN DER WAALS;

DIFFRACTION; EXPERIMENTS;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 84871882261     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/065016     Document Type: Article

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