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Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules

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The development of wave optics for light brought many new insights into our understanding of physics, driven by fundamental experiments like the ones by Young, Fizeau, Michelson-Morley and others. Quantum mechanics, and especially the de Broglie’s postulate relating the momentum p of a particle to the wave vector k of an matter wave: k = 2 λ = p/ℏ, suggested that wave optical experiments should be also possible with massive particles (see table 1), and over the last 40 years electron and neutron interferometers have demonstrated many fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics [1].

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Schmiedmayer, J. (2001). Optics and Interferometry with Atoms and Molecules. In: Campargue, R. (eds) Atomic and Molecular Beams. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56800-8_3

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