Quantum Effects in Matter-Wave Diffraction
Quantum Physics
2017-08-23 v1
Abstract
Advances in micro-technology of the last years have made it possible to carry optics textbooks experiments over to atomic and molecular beams, such as diffraction by a double slit or transmission grating. The usual wave-optical approach gives a good qualitative description of these experiments. However, small deviations therefrom and sophisticated quantum mechanics yield new surprising insights on the size of particles and on their interaction with surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0110163,
title = {Quantum Effects in Matter-Wave Diffraction},
author = {Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt and Thorsten Koehler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0110163},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 Postscript figures. To appear in the Proceedings of Quantum Theory and Symmetry, Cracow, July 2001, edited by E. Kapuscik and A. Horzela, World Scientific