This chapter reviews recent experiments on matter wave interferometry with large molecules. Starting from an elementary introduction to matter wave physics we discuss far-field diffraction and near-field interferometry with thermally excited many-body systems. We describe the constraints imposed by decoherence and dephasing effects, and present an outlook to the future challenges in macromolecule and cluster interferometry.
@article{arxiv.0903.1614,
title = {Quantum interferometry with complex molecules},
author = {Markus Arndt and Klaus Hornberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1614},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
29 pages, 11 figures; to appear in "Quantum Coherence in Solid State Systems", Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course CLXXI