Einstein-Bohr recoiling double-slit gedanken experiment performed at the molecular level

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 120-125

  Liu, Xiao Jing ^a   Miao, Quan ^b,c   Gel'Mukhanov, Faris ^a,b   Patanen, Minna ^a   Travnikova, Oksana ^a   Nicolas, Christophe ^a   Ågren, Hans ^b   Ueda, Kiyoshi ^d   Miron, Catalin ^a,e  

^a SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL   (France)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HORIA HULUBEI NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND NUCLEAR ENGINEERING   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOMENTUM TRANSFER; PHOTODISSOCIATION;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; DISSOCIATIVE STATE; DOUBLE-SLIT EXPERIMENT; ELECTRON MOMENTUM; MOLECULAR LEVELS; WAVE PARTICLES; WAVE-PARTICLE DUALITY; X-RAY PHOTOEMISSIONS;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

EID: 84923071676     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.289     Document Type: Article

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