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Cotter JP, Eibenberger S, Mairhofer L, et al. Coherence in the presence of absorption and heating in a molecule interferometer. Nat Commun. 2015;6:7336doi: 10.1038/ncomms8336.
Cotter, J. P., Eibenberger, S., Mairhofer, L., Cheng, X., Asenbaum, P., Arndt, M., Walter, K., Nimmrichter, S., & Hornberger, K. (2015). Coherence in the presence of absorption and heating in a molecule interferometer. Nature communications, 67336. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8336
Cotter, J P, et al. "Coherence in the presence of absorption and heating in a molecule interferometer." Nature communications vol. 6 (2015): 7336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8336
Cotter JP, Eibenberger S, Mairhofer L, Cheng X, Asenbaum P, Arndt M, Walter K, Nimmrichter S, Hornberger K. Coherence in the presence of absorption and heating in a molecule interferometer. Nat Commun. 2015 Jun 11;6:7336. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8336. PMID: 26066053; PMCID: PMC4477035.
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Nat Commun. 2015 Jun 11;6:7336. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8336.

Coherence in the presence of absorption and heating in a molecule interferometer.

Nature communications

J P Cotter, S Eibenberger, L Mairhofer, X Cheng, P Asenbaum, M Arndt, K Walter, S Nimmrichter, K Hornberger

Affiliations

  1. University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, VCQ &QuNaBioS, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
  2. University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Physics, Lotharstraße 1-21, 47048 Duisburg, Germany.

PMID: 26066053 PMCID: PMC4477035 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8336

Abstract

Matter-wave interferometry can be used to probe the foundations of physics and to enable precise measurements of particle properties and fundamental constants. It relies on beam splitters that coherently divide the wave function. In atom interferometers, such elements are often realised using lasers by exploiting the dipole interaction or through photon absorption. It is intriguing to extend these ideas to complex molecules where the energy of an absorbed photon can rapidly be redistributed across many internal degrees of freedom. Here, we provide evidence that center-of-mass coherence can be maintained even when the internal energy and entropy of the interfering particle are substantially increased by absorption of photons from a standing light wave. Each photon correlates the molecular center-of-mass wave function with its internal temperature and splits it into a superposition with opposite momenta in addition to the beam-splitting action of the optical dipole potential.

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