New avenues for matter-wave-enhanced spectroscopy

Jonas Rodewald; Philipp Haslinger; Nadine Doerre; Benjamin A. Stickler; Armin Shayeghi; Klaus Hornberger; Markus Arndt

doi:10.1007/s00340-016-6573-y

New avenues for matter-wave-enhanced spectroscopy

Jonas Rodewald, Philipp Haslinger, Nadine Doerre, Benjamin A. Stickler, Armin Shayeghi, Klaus Hornberger, Markus Arndt (Corresponding author)

Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information

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Abstract

We present matter-wave interferometry as a tool to advance spectroscopy for a wide class of nanoparticles, clusters and molecules. The high sensitivity of de Broglie interference fringes to external perturbations enables measurements in the limit of an individual particle absorbing only a single photon on average, or even no photon at all. The method allows one to extract structural and electronic information from the loss of the interference contrast. It is minimally invasive and works even for dilute ensembles.

Original language	English
Article number	3
Number of pages	8
Journal	Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
Volume	123
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6573-y
Publication status	Published - Jan 2017

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103026 Quantum optics

Keywords

TIME-DOMAIN
ATOMIC INTERFEROMETRY
BUILDING-BLOCKS
LARGE MOLECULES
DECOHERENCE
INTERFERENCE
IONIZATION
COHERENCE
GRATINGS
CLUSTERS

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New avenues for matter-wave-enhanced spectroscopy

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