Selective photodissociation of tailored molecular tags as a tool for quantum optics

Ugur Sezer, Philipp Geyer, Moritz Kriegleder, Maxime Debiossac, Armin Shayeghi, Markus Arndt, Lukas Felix, Marcel Mayor (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

Recent progress in synthetic chemistry and molecular quantum optics has enabled demonstrations of the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality for complex particles, with masses exceeding 10 kDa. Future experiments with even larger objects will require new optical preparation and manipulation methods that shall profit from the possibility to cleave a well-defined molecular tag from a larger parent molecule. Here we present the design and synthesis of two model compounds as well as evidence for the photoinduced beam depletion in high vacuum in one case.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)325-333
Number of pages9
JournalBeilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
Volume8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Feb 2017

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 103026 Quantum optics

Keywords

  • molecular quantum optics
  • photodepletion
  • photodissociation
  • synthetic photo-tags
  • INTERFERENCE
  • INTERFEROMETER
  • Synthetic photo-tags
  • Molecular quantum optics
  • Photodissociation
  • Photodepletion

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