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View SchemaExperimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for hot fullerene molecules
| Authors | Olaf Nairz, Markus Arndt, Anton Zeilinger |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0105061 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105061 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032109 |
Abstract
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle for material objects is an essential corner stone of quantum mechanics and clearly visualizes the wave nature of matter. Here we report a demonstration of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for the most massive, complex and hottest single object so far, the fullerene molecule C70 at a temperature of 900 K. We find a good quantitative agreement with the theoretical expectation: dx * dp = h, where dx is the width of the restricting slit, dp is the momentum transfer required to deflect the fullerene to the first interference minimum and h is Planck's quantum of action.
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