Improved accuracy fullerene polarizability measurements in a long-baseline matter-wave interferometer

Yaakov Y. Fein; Philipp Geyer; Filip Kialka; Stefan Gerlich; Markus Arndt

doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033158

Improved accuracy fullerene polarizability measurements in a long-baseline matter-wave interferometer

Yaakov Y. Fein
, Philipp Geyer
, Filip Kialka
, Stefan Gerlich
, Markus Arndt (Corresponding author)

Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information

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Abstract

We present electric deflection results for the fullerenes C60 and C70 obtained with a long-baseline matter-wave interferometer. The second grating of the interferometer is interchangeable between a material grating for fast atom beams and an optical phase grating for polarizable molecules. This allows us to use cesium as a calibration particle and thus measure molecular susceptibilities with improved systematic uncertainty. The static polarizabilities of C60 and C70 are measured as 4πɛ0×87.4±0.4±2.5Å3 and 4πɛ0×106.4±0.2±1.1Å3, respectively, in excellent agreement with previous deflection experiments, but with improved uncertainties.

Original language	English
Article number	033158
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Research
Volume	1
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.033158
Publication status	Published - 9 Dec 2019

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103026 Quantum optics

Keywords

ATOM
C-60
FIELD
IONIZATION

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Improved accuracy fullerene polarizability measurements in a long-baseline matter-wave interferometer

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