This document summarizes an experiment that tested the quantum mechanical principle of superposition using large dye molecules. The experiment measured interference patterns when the molecules passed through single, double, and triple slits. It observed less than 1% deviation from the expected interference patterns based on quantum mechanics, providing evidence that the superposition principle applies even to massive particles like these large molecules. The experiment is one of the first to directly observe quantum interference using massive particles rather than light or single particles.
The slide is about matter wave interferometry and discusses this subject first with regards to the following questions.
1. While quantum physics is a universally valid theory are there any mass, size or complexity limits ?
2. As quantum physics is a precise theory can we use quantum interferometry for particle metrology?
3. As there seems to be a limit of how far the quantum interferometry can be shown to exist how far can we extend the double slit interferometry to larger things ?
The author's perspective is therefore to show that he can do double slit wave interferometry with quite large molecules.
What is interesting to him is the velocity distribution or "velocity selection" as it is called in his poster.
Then the author continues to discuss different interferometry techniques such as the Talbot-Lau interferometre and its extension, the Kapitza-Dirac Talbot-Lau interferometre.
After this he starts mentioning quantum interferometry with "polyatomic strings" and continues to discuss a larger variety of techniques and molecules.
The slide is about matter wave interferometry and discusses this subject first with regards to the following questions.
1. While quantum physics is a universally valid theory are there any mass, size or complexity limits ?
2. As quantum physics is a precise theory can we use quantum interferometry for particle metrology?
3. As there seems to be a limit of how far the quantum interferometry can be shown to exist how far can we extend the double slit interferometry to larger things ?
The author's perspective is therefore to show that he can do double slit wave interferometry with quite large molecules.
What is interesting to him is the velocity distribution or "velocity selection" as it is called in his poster.
Then the author continues to discuss different interferometry techniques such as the Talbot-Lau interferometre and its extension, the Kapitza-Dirac Talbot-Lau interferometre.
After this he starts mentioning quantum interferometry with "polyatomic strings" and continues to discuss a larger variety of techniques and molecules.
42 Beam Asymmetry Σ of the π- Photoproduction off Neutron - International Jou...Cristian Randieri PhD
Beam Asymmetry Σ of the π- Photoproduction off Neutron - International Journal of Modern Physics E, June 2010, Vol. 19, N. 5-6, pp. 965-976, doi: 10.1142/S0218301310015412
di G. Mandaglio, V. Bellini, J. P. Bocquet, L. Casano, A. D'Angelo, R. Di Salvo, A. Fantini, D. Franco, G. Gervino, F. Ghio, G. Giardina, B. Girolami, A. Giusa, A. S. Ignatov, A. M. Lapik, P. Levi Sandri, A. Lleres, F. Mammoliti, M. Manganaro, D. Moricciani, A. N. Mushkarenkov, V. G. Nedorezov, C. Randieri, D. Rebreyend, N. V. Rudnev, G. Russo, C. Schaerf, M. L. Sperduto, M. C. Sutera, A. Turinge, V. Vegna (2010)
Abstract
We present the analysis of data performed in order to identify the events of the γ + n → π- + p reaction obtained by bombarding a liquid Deuterium target with a polarised γ beam of 0.55-1.5 GeV at the Graal-experiment. We show the effect of different kinematic and hardware constraints used to reduce the contamination coming from the concurrent reaction channels. By the simulation we estimate the contamination degree due to the other reaction channels so we can test the reliability of our method. We describe a new three-dimensional cut based on the Fermi momentum reconstruction and its effect on the suppression of the concurrent double charged pion photoproduction. We present the preliminary beam asymmetry Σ of the π- fotoproduction off quasi-free neutron up to about θc.m., π- = 165° together with some theoretical multipolar analysis. For a comparison we also report the data present in literature on the same reaction for Eγ =850-1740 MeV and θc.m., π- ≤105°.
41 Limits on Light-Speed Anisotropies from Compton Scattering of High-Energy ...Cristian Randieri PhD
Limits on Light-Speed Anisotropies from Compton Scattering of High-Energy Electrons -The American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, June 2010, Vol. 104, N. 24, pp. 241601-1-241601-5, ISSN: 0031-9007, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.241601
di J. P. Bocquet, D. Moricciani, V. Bellini, M. Beretta, L. Casano, A. D'Angelo, R. Di Salvo, A. Fantini, D. Franco, G. Gervino, F. Ghio, G. Giardina, B. Girolami, A. Giusa, V. G. Gurzadyan, A. Kashin, S. Knyazyan, A. Lapik, R. Lehnert, P. Levi Sandri, A. Lleres, F. Mammoliti, G. Mandaglio, M. Manganaro, A. Margarian, S. Mehrabyan, R. Messi, V. Nedorezov, C. Perrin, C. Randieri, D. Rebreyend, N. Rudnev, G. Russo, C. Schaerf, M. L. Sperduto, M. C. Sutera, A. Turinge, V. Vegna (2010)
Abstract
The possibility of anisotropies in the speed of light relative to the limiting speed of electrons is considered. The absence of sidereal variations in the energy of Compton-edge photons at the ESRF's GRAAL facility constrains such anisotropies representing the first non-threshold collision-kinematics study of Lorentz violation. When interpreted within the minimal Standard-Model Extension, this result yields the two-sided limit of 1.6 x 10^{-14} at 95% confidence level on a combination of the parity-violating photon and electron coefficients kappa_{o+} and c. This new constraint provides an improvement over previous bounds by one order of magnitude.
45 Evidence for a narrow N* (1685) resonance in quasifree Compton scattering ...Cristian Randieri PhD
Evidence for a narrow N* (1685) resonance in quasifree Compton scattering on the neutron - The American Physical Society, Physical Review C, February 2011, Vol. 83, N. 2, pp. 022201-1-022201-4, ISSN: 0556-2813, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.83.022201
di V. Kuznetsov, M. V. Polyakov, V. Bellini, T. Boiko, S. Chebotaryov, H.-S. Dho, G. Gervino, F. Ghio, A. Giusa, A. Kim, W. Kim, F. Mammoliti, E. Milman, A. Ni, I. A. Perevalova, C. Randieri, G. Russo, M. L. Sperduto, C. M. Sutera, A. N. Vall (2011)
Abstract
The study of quasifree Compton scattering on the neutron in the energy range of Eγ=0.75–1.5 GeV is presented. The data reveal a narrow peak at W~1.685 GeV. This result, being considered in conjunction with the recent evidence for a narrow structure at W~1.68 GeV in η photoproduction on the neutron, suggests the existence of a nucleon resonance with unusual properties: a mass M~1.685GeV, a narrow width Γ⩽30 MeV, and the much stronger photoexcitation on the neutron than on the proton.
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The physical property of strongly correlated electrons on a three-dimensional (3D) 3 x 3 x 3 cluster of the simple cubic lattice is here presented.In the work we developed the unit step Hamiltonian as a solution to the single band Hubbard Hamiltonian for the case of two electrons interaction in a finite three dimensional lattice. The approximation to the Hubbard Hamiltonian study is actually necessary because of the strong limitation and difficulty pose by the Hubbard Hamiltonian as we move away from finite - size lattices to larger N - dimensional lattices. Thus this work has provided a means of overcoming the finite - size lattice defects as we pass on to a higher dimension. We have shown in this study, that the repulsive Coulomb interaction which in part leads to the strong electronic correlations, would indicate that the two electron system prefer not to condense into s-wave superconducting singlet state (s = 0), at high positive values of the interaction strength. This study reveals that when the Coulomb interaction is zero, that is, for free electron system (non-interacting), thevariational parameters which describe the probability distribution of lattice electron system is the same. The spectra intensity for on-site electrons is zero for all values of the interaction strength
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Abstract
We present the analysis of data performed in order to identify the events of the γ + n → π- + p reaction obtained by bombarding a liquid Deuterium target with a polarised γ beam of 0.55-1.5 GeV at the Graal-experiment. We show the effect of different kinematic and hardware constraints used to reduce the contamination coming from the concurrent reaction channels. By the simulation we estimate the contamination degree due to the other reaction channels so we can test the reliability of our method. We describe a new three-dimensional cut based on the Fermi momentum reconstruction and its effect on the suppression of the concurrent double charged pion photoproduction. We present the preliminary beam asymmetry Σ of the π- fotoproduction off quasi-free neutron up to about θc.m., π- = 165° together with some theoretical multipolar analysis. For a comparison we also report the data present in literature on the same reaction for Eγ =850-1740 MeV and θc.m., π- ≤105°.
41 Limits on Light-Speed Anisotropies from Compton Scattering of High-Energy ...Cristian Randieri PhD
Limits on Light-Speed Anisotropies from Compton Scattering of High-Energy Electrons -The American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, June 2010, Vol. 104, N. 24, pp. 241601-1-241601-5, ISSN: 0031-9007, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.241601
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Abstract
The possibility of anisotropies in the speed of light relative to the limiting speed of electrons is considered. The absence of sidereal variations in the energy of Compton-edge photons at the ESRF's GRAAL facility constrains such anisotropies representing the first non-threshold collision-kinematics study of Lorentz violation. When interpreted within the minimal Standard-Model Extension, this result yields the two-sided limit of 1.6 x 10^{-14} at 95% confidence level on a combination of the parity-violating photon and electron coefficients kappa_{o+} and c. This new constraint provides an improvement over previous bounds by one order of magnitude.
45 Evidence for a narrow N* (1685) resonance in quasifree Compton scattering ...Cristian Randieri PhD
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Abstract
The study of quasifree Compton scattering on the neutron in the energy range of Eγ=0.75–1.5 GeV is presented. The data reveal a narrow peak at W~1.685 GeV. This result, being considered in conjunction with the recent evidence for a narrow structure at W~1.68 GeV in η photoproduction on the neutron, suggests the existence of a nucleon resonance with unusual properties: a mass M~1.685GeV, a narrow width Γ⩽30 MeV, and the much stronger photoexcitation on the neutron than on the proton.
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Poster of my master\'s research presented at the Physics@FOM conference at Veldhoven on 20 januari 2010. There\'s one error in the equations, can you find it?
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the paper focuses on the fabrication and characterization of heterostructures using transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. The authors describe the process of mechanical exfoliation to obtain thin flakes of TMDC material, which are then placed on a viscoelastic polydimethylsiloxane film. These monolayers are subsequently stamped onto a silicon wafer covered with thermal oxide to create heterobilayers .
The paper also discusses the use of ultrafast optical-pump/terahertz-probe near-field microscopy to study these heterostructures. The authors explain that this technique allows them to investigate the electric near fields and scattered fields of the emitted waveforms, as well as the photo-induced polarizability .
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2. This results in a probability density PABC = |yABC| = |yA + yB + yC|2
,
which can be written in terms of one- and two-path interference con-
tributions only as
P′
ABC ¼ ðPAB þ PAC þ PBCÞ ðPA þ PB þ PCÞ ð3Þ
Here, P′
ABC represents the probability density expected, according to
Born’s rule, when all three paths are available. PAB is the measured prob-
ability density when only paths A and B are open, PA applies when only
path A is open, and so on. By comparing measured three-path interfer-
ence patterns with a combination of one- and two-path patterns, one
can therefore provide an upper bound to the contribution of multipath
interference using Sorkin’s criterion (34) through a nonzero measure-
ment of the dimensionless parameter
eðx; ldBÞ ¼ PABC P′
ABC
¼ PABC ðPAB þ PAC þ PBCÞ þ ðPA þ PB þ PCÞ ð4Þ
Here, x is the transverse position on the detection screen and ldB is the
de Broglie wavelength of the interfering quanta.
Within an experimental run, we deposit about 2 × 104
molecules in
an area of the detection screen measuring 80 × 280 mm2
. This number
density is sufficiently dilute, even in the densest regions, that Ng, the
number of fluorescence photons detected, remains proportional to
the number of molecules in a given region, N = aNg.
According to Eq. 4, seven different interference patterns are required
to place bounds on e(x, ldB). However, in this experiment, the interfer-
ence patterns PAB and PBC are expected to differ only by a translation of
100 nm along x. This is two orders of magnitude smaller than the spatial
separation of the diffraction fringes and below the limit of our spatial
resolution. We can therefore simplify Eq. 4 as
eðx; ldBÞ ¼ N
ða;dÞ
3 ðx; ldBÞ 2N
ða;dÞ
2 ðx; ldBÞ
N
ða;2dÞ
2 ðx; ldBÞ þ 3N
ðaÞ
1 ðx; ldBÞ ð5Þ
Here, N is the number of molecules, subscripts label the number of
paths available, and superscripts denote the respective slit width and sep-
aration. This simplification is valid because NA ≈ NB ≈ NC ¼
N
ðaÞ
1 , NAB ≈ NBC ¼ N
ða;dÞ
2 , NAC ¼ N
ða;2dÞ
2 ; and NABC ¼ N
ða;dÞ
3 . This
allows only four submasks to be used: M1 with a single slit, M2 with
two slits separated by d, M3 with two slits separated by 2d, and M4 with
three slits separated by d.
Figure 3 (A to D) shows typical fluorescence images for molecules
diffracted at submasks M1 to M4 in a region of 80 × 280 mm2
. This
region was chosen to be slightly larger than the single-slit diffraction
pattern, which sets the natural length scale for these experiments. In
all images, we observe a broad transverse distribution of molecules,
consistent with a single-slit diffraction envelope. However, where more
thanonepathisavailable,additionalfringes,consistentwithldB = xd/L2 ,
are observed. Here, m is an integer labeling the diffraction order, and
we have made the small-angle approximation sin(q) ≈ q ≈ x/L2.
Slower molecules have more time to fall as they travel from the
source to the screen, resulting in larger separations between diffrac-
tion orders than those of faster particles. The molecular velocity, and
therefore the de Broglie wavelength, is encoded in the vertical posi-
tion of molecules on the detection screen. Hence, we are able to post-
select molecules with different de Broglie wavelengths after each
experiment. Figure 3E shows the corresponding value of e(x, ldB)
for the interference patterns shown in Fig. 3 (A to D) after subtrac-
tion in accordance with Eq. 5. We see that the deviation from zero is
typically at the one-molecule level or fewer.
To compare results from different experimental runs as well as our
values to earlier measurements with photons (35, 37, 40), we rescale
B
A
Diffraction
mask
1
2
3
4
H2
Pc
Laser
desorption
1
2
A B C
A B C
Fig. 1. Experimental setup. (A) Focused laser source produces a thermal beam
of PcH2 molecules, which diffracts at a vertical array of single, double, and triple
slits, which are aligned to the local gravitation field g, before landing on a thin
quartz detection screen. The deposited molecules are observed using high-
resolution fluorescence imaging. (B) Schematic of the triple slit. The openings
(black) have a transverse width a = 80 nm, and their centers are separated by a
distance d = 100 nm.
Fig. 2. Diffraction mask. TEM image of a part of the M4 submask of the triple
slit. The openings in the mask (white) are a = 80 nm wide and have a period of d =
100 nm.
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3. e(x, ldB) by the total number of molecules detected for each de Broglie
wavelength, Ntotal(ldB), within the triple-slit interference pattern
kðx; ldBÞ ¼
eðx; ldBÞ
NtotalðldBÞ
ð6Þ
This ratio compares the number of molecules that deviate from the pre-
dictions of quantum mechanics to the total number of molecules de-
tected for a given de Broglie wavelength and therefore provides a
measure of any potential violation that is independent of the particle
flux and integration time. Note that the precise definition of k varies
throughout the existing literature. In many cases, it is the intensity of
particles detected at the center of the interference pattern that is used.
However, in far-field molecule interferometry, the interaction energy
between the interfering particles and the diffractive element can alter
the relative intensity of each diffraction order, resulting in species-
and diffraction-dependent values of k. In contrast, the total number
of molecules detected remains independent of the diffraction process
at low energies.
Figure 4A shows the normalized Sorkin parameter k(x, ldB) aver-
aged over five experimental runs, each of which takes about 8 hours
to accumulate. We see that any residual structure remaining in e(x, ldB)
from Fig. 3E is greatly reduced by the combined action of averaging and
normalizing to the total number of molecules detected. To produce this
figure, we have combined the four interference patterns of Fig. 3 (A to
D) in accordance with Eqs. 4 to 6. The absence of pronounced peaks
qualitatively constrains multipath contributions to the interference
patterns generated in our molecule interferometer.
In a single measurement, we obtain interference patterns for parti-
cles with de Broglie wavelengths spanning more than an entire octave as
well as a broad range of transverse positions. More details relating to the
conversion of vertical position on the charge-coupled device (CCD)
camera to de Broglie wavelength can be found in Materials and Methods
and the Supplementary Materials. To quantitatively constrain multipath
interference, we focus on k recorded at the center of the zeroth diffraction
fringe and a transverse slice with a de Broglie wavelength of 3.5 pm. Fig-
ure 4 (B and C) shows k(0, ldB) and k(x, 3.5 pm) averaged over five ex-
perimental runs. The black line depicts the mean value, with the shaded
region illustrating the accompanying 1s SE. We see no significant de-
viation of k from zero beyond our statistical uncertainty across the en-
tire range of de Broglie wavelengths or transverse momenta probed.
DISCUSSION
Our molecular experiment provides a direct constraint on contributions
to multipath interference using massive particles by comparing the inter-
ference patterns resulting from single-, double-, and triple-slit experi-
ments. Matter waves have a different dispersion relation than light,
which has enabled us to place bounds on multipath interference across
arange of deBroglie wavelengthsspanning morethanan octave,in addi-
tiontoabroadrangeoftransversemomenta,inasingleexperimentalrun.
We observe that, on average, less than one molecule in a hundred
deviates from the coherent, Schrödinger description of quantum me-
chanics when compared with the corresponding local number of mol-
ecules of the same de Broglie wavelength in a triple-slit experiment. This
results in an upper limit of |k|2
≤ 10−2
across de Broglie wavelengths
ranging from 2.5 to 5.0 pm and transverse positions ranging over 80 mm
centered on the zeroth interference fringe.
Unlike photons, which are detected destructively, here, the interfer-
ing quanta are durable molecules that stick to a screen where they can be
detected in a nondestructive manner, even days after deposition (41).
Whether the wavelike description of quantum objects extends to higher
masses (29, 42) remains an open question that motivates further
experiments using larger, more massive, and complex particles. How-
ever, the long integration time required to produce a single-molecule
m = 0
A B C D
N1
(a,d)
N2
(a,2d)
N2
(a,d)
N3
(a)
0
10
20
Number
of
molecules
–1
0
1
(number
of
molecules)
E
40 m
Fig. 3. Molecule diffraction patterns. Fluorescence images of molecules after diffraction at (A) a single slit, (B) a double slit with period 2d, (C) a double slit with
period d, and (D) a triple slit with period d. Slower molecules fall further under gravity in the time it takes them to reach the screen. This results in a larger separation
between diffraction orders further down the screen. All images are aligned vertically with respect to gravity. In (D), we have highlighted the center of the m = 0 fringe.
(E) Sorkin parameter e(x, ldB) for the interference patterns (A to D) calculated in accordance with Eq. 5.
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4. interference pattern limits our statistics, which are the dominant uncer-
tainty in this experiment. Further progress hinges on the development
of new sources for slow, cold, and collimated macromolecular, cluster,
or nanoparticle beams.
Direct tests of multipath interference using beams of molecules are
best implemented in a single diffraction grating scheme, such as the one
used in our present work. State-of-the-art material diffraction gratings
have already reached their natural size limit, with masks as thin as a
single atomic layer (43); further advances may therefore require optical
gratings or new methods of producing effective slits for matter waves.
High-order interference terms, resulting in finite values of k, are pre-
dicted by quantum mechanics. These additional terms can be under-
stood using the Feynman path integral approach, wherein nonlinear
pathsalsoaddupconstructivelytocontributetothefinalinterferencepat-
tern(44,45).Foratriple-slitexperiment,suchastheonepresentedhere,the
maximum value of this multipath contribution scales as l
3=2
dB =ðad1=2
Þ.
The relatively high mass of our interfering quanta, which are derived
from a thermal source, results in a short de Broglie wavelength. This
suppresses the multipath contribution to the interference patterns well
below our current precision. However, matter-wave interferometry
using cold, low-mass atoms, such as helium or lithium, can achieve very
long de Broglie wavelengths and may be able to reach the necessary
precision.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Experimental design
The experiment is housed in a 2.14-m-long vacuum chamber with a
background pressure below 10−7
mbar (41). At this pressure, collisions
with background gas can be safely neglected. Furthermore, collisions
predominantly prevent the molecules from reaching the small detection
region, whereby they reduce the count rate without affecting the shape
of the diffraction patterns. Each experimental run took about 8 hours.
Approximately 50 mg of PcH2 (M = 515 amu) was evaporated onto a
CF100 vacuum window, resulting in a homogeneous layer, only a few
micrometersthick (41). Evaporating molecules fromthe coated window
using a tightly focused 60-mW laser beam with a wavelength of 421 nm
produced a dilute molecular beam along z, with, on average, less than
one molecule passing through the grating at any given time. Particles
leave the surface from a circular spot with a diameter of Dx = 1.6(1) mm,
measured using an optical microscope. The beam was replenished in situ
by translating the window laterally to expose new regions of the surface
to the laser beam. This ensures that the position of the beam relative to
the diffraction mask remains fixed. After desorption, the molecules
propagate a distance of L1 = 1.55 m before coherently illuminating
the diffraction mask consisting of four sets of slits (M1 to M4). The an-
gular spread of the molecular beam is well described by a cosine
distribution, resulting in a flux of particles varying by 10−6
across
the 0.6-mrad solid angle required to simultaneously illuminate all slits.
The mask was positioned relative to the molecular beam with a pre-
cision of 25 mm using an xy translation stage, and the slits were orien-
tated with respect to gravity (y axis) to better than a few milliradians.
After passing through, the mask molecules arrive at a quartz plate
where they stick. The molecular diffraction patterns were then revealed
by illuminating the quartz plate using a 661-nm laser and observing the
resulting fluorescence from the deposited molecules. The illumination
laser beam has a top-hat intensity distribution produced by reflecting a
Gaussian beam from the surface of a spatial light modulator (SLM)
before passing through a rotating ground-glass diffuser. Each interfer-
ence pattern was imaged using a 20-s exposure, during which the SLM
cycled through 100 different interference masks, averaging over the
laser beam phase fronts, resulting in an average intensity that varies
by a few percent over the entire region of interest. Fluorescence photons
were collected using a 20× objective (Zeiss Ultrafluar), whichfocuses them
onto an electron-multiplying CCD camera (Andor iXon 885-KCSVP)
containing 1003 pixels × 1004 pixels with an area of 8 × 8 mm2
each. The
40 m
–0.08
0
0.08
A B
C
K
K
x
Fig. 4. Bounding multipath interference. (A) Normalized Sorkin parameter k(x, ldB). (B) k(0, ldB), the normalized Sorkin parameter as a function of de Broglie
wavelength at the center of the m = 0 interference fringe. (C) k(x, 3.5 pm), the normalized Sorkin parameter as a function of transverse position on the detection
screen for a mean de Broglie wavelength of 3.5 pm. Each figure shows the average over five different experimental runs. In (B) and (C), black lines show the mean,
whereas shaded gray areas enclose the 1s SE. The spatial resolution in all figures is limited by the point-spread function of the imaging system, which is 1.6 mm,
approximately four pixels in the plane of the molecular detection screen.
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5. point spread function of the imaging system is about four times larger
than the size of a single pixel and limits our spatial resolution. We there-
fore averaged the two-dimensional (2D) interferograms over blocks of
4 pixels × 4 pixels.
Fluorescence photons were separated from the illumination light
using a 711-nm band-pass filter with a bandwidth of 25 nm and an
optical density of 7. Special care is taken to avoid saturation and non-
linear effects by having only thin layers of molecules deposited. On
average, each molecule contributes 1800 CCD counts (more details are
described in the Supplementary Materials).
Diffraction mask
The mask was fabricated into a 25-nm-thick amorphous carbon mem-
brane (Ted Pella). The slits were machined using a focused gallium ion
beam (Raith ionLine) with a kinetic energy of 35 kV, a one-dimensional
(1D) beam density of 48 × 103
pC/m, a current of 19.2 pA, and a dwell
time of 0.72 ms. During the writing process, the ion beam was translated
across the substrate in steps of 1 nm. The focused waist of the ion beam
is about 60 nm, requiring each individual subslit to be exposed twice to
realize a slit width of 80 nm.
The morphology of the maskwas investigated using TEM. The mask
extends over a height (y axis) of 958 mm and consists of four submasks:
M1 containing a single slit, M2 and M3 containing double slits, and M4
containing a triple slit. Each slit is 21 mm long and consists of a vertical
array of 19 subslits, separated from one another by 92(5)-mm-long
-support bars, which stabilize the mask and prevent deformations of
the ultrathin membrane. The submasks were separated from one an-
other by 300 mm to ensure that the diffraction patterns from neighbor-
ing slits do not overlap on the detection screen. The average width of the
subslits within a given slit varies by less than 1 nm for all slits (SD from
the 19 subslits). For submask M1, the opening width is 86(5) nm. For
submask M2, the opening widths are 75(5) and 81(5) nm with a sepa-
ration of 102(5) nm. For submask M3, the opening widths are 79(5) nm
and a = 82(5) nm, and their separation is 2d = 195(5) nm. For submask
M3, the opening widths are 78(5), 83(5), and 81(5) nm, with separations
of 97(5) and 98(5) nm. Here, error bars are the systematic uncertainty of
the electron microscope and are consistent with the statistical variations
we observed between slits. The 230:1 aspect ratio of the slits and their
large opening fraction, a/d = 0.8, helped increase the molecular trans-
mission and therefore signal to noise.
Analysis of diffraction patterns
All four submasks were exposed simultaneously to the molecular
beam. However, the limited field of view of the imaging system re-
quires eachinterference pattern to be imaged separately. To determine k
for a given experimental run, we first centered the individual images
N
ðaÞ
1 ðx; ldBÞ; N
ða;dÞ
2 ðx; ldBÞ; N
ða;2dÞ
2 ðx; ldBÞ;N
ða;dÞ
3 ðx; ldBÞ
withrespect
toeachother.Thehorizontalandverticalaxesofeachimagewerearranged
according to the center of the m = 0 interference fringe, corresponding to
x = 0, and the median velocity, respectively. We can align the transverse
position of each interference pattern with a precision better than 1 mm in
the plane of the detection screen and a vertical precision corresponding
to a de Broglie wavelength of 5 fm. Further details are shown in the
Supplementary Materials. The molecular velocity for a given vertical
pixel was determined from the separation, dx, between the m = ± 1
diffraction orders of the triple-slit diffraction pattern according to
v = 4pℏL2/Mddx.
The dark counts per pixel N0 were subtracted for each interfero-
gram individually. Within a given experimental run, the fractional
change in N0 between different interference patterns is less than
5 × 10−3
. Dark counts were determined by measuring the mean number
of counts detected in a square region of 50 pixels × 50 pixels where no
molecules are expected. The size and region used to estimate N0 affect
the measurement of k(x, ldB) by less than one part in 102
when the
region of interest is varied between 20 and 200 pixels. This is two
orders of magnitude smaller than the statistical uncertainty. The
precise position of the same region of interest relative to the center of
the interference pattern has a similarly small effect on the measure-
ment of k(x, ldB) when the distance is varied between about 700 and
900 pixels.
Surface interactions
Deviationsin the slit morphology alterthe position-dependent Casimir-
Polder interaction between individual molecules and the mask. This has
been studied in detail for matter-wave diffraction at material gratings,
including the effect of thermally populated rotational and vibrational
states on far-field diffraction (46, 47). For each slit, the interference pat-
tern recorded is the ensemble average over the entire phase-space dis-
tribution of the molecular beam and the mask. The modification to the
interference patterns are therefore negligible for our slits, which are ex-
tremely uniform—varying by less than 5 nm from slit to slit. In a pre-
vious work by Sinha et al. (35), the seven different interference patterns
necessary to measure e(x, ldB) were achieved by blocking slits using an
additional mask. In our apparatus, this is not possible because of the
extremely small opening apertures necessary for our matter waves,
which are typically 1000 times smaller than their optical counterparts.
In our interferometer, the additional blocking mask would need to be in
the vicinity of 100 nm of the diffraction mask, where the strong Casimir
interaction between the two masks would modify the transmission
function of the unblocked beams. At these short distances, fabrication
imperfections in the additional blocking mask would also contribute a
systematic distortion of the interference patterns, with a similar magni-
tude to deviations arising from the diffraction masks themselves.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
Supplementary material for this article is available at http://advances.sciencemag.org/cgi/
content/full/3/8/e1602478/DC1
Diffraction mask
Molecule detection
Interference patterns
fig. S1. TEM images of the four submasks.
fig. S2. Intensity distribution of the 661-nm illumination light.
fig. S3. Surface migration of PcH2 molecules behind a grating with a period of 2 mm.
fig. S4. Molecule number as a function of detector position.
fig. S5. Raw data before dark count subtraction.
fig. S6. Determining molecular velocities from fringe spacing.
fig. S7. Reconstructing molecular velocity distributions.
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Acknowledgments: We thank B. Dakic and C. Brukner for helpful discussions and T. Susi for
help with the recording of TEM images. Funding: We are grateful for financial support
from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (W1210-3), the European Research Council (320694),
and the European Commission (304886). J.P.C. is supported by a Vienna Center for
Quantum Science and Technology fellowship. C.B. acknowledges support from the
Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation through a Feodor-Lynen fellowship. Author
contributions: J.P.C. and M.A. devised the experiment. Y.L. and O.C. prepared the
diffraction mask. C.B. and C.K. acquired the data. J.P.C. analyzed the data. All authors
discussed the results and contributed to the writing of the paper. Competing interests:
The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Data and materials
availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the
paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Additional data related to this paper may
be requested from J.P.C. (joseph.cotter@univie.ac.at).
Submitted 12 October 2016
Accepted 6 July 2017
Published 11 August 2017
10.1126/sciadv.1602478
Citation: J. P. Cotter, C. Brand, C. Knobloch, Y. Lilach, O. Cheshnovsky, M. Arndt, In search of
multipath interference using large molecules. Sci. Adv. 3, e1602478 (2017).
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