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Quantum experiments with microscale particles
James Millen, Benjamin A. Stickler
Quantum theory is incredibly successful, explaining the microscopic world with great accuracy, from the behaviour of subatomic particles to chemical reactions to solid-state electr…
Bragg diffraction of large organic molecules
Christian Brand, Filip Kiałka, Stephan Troyer +5
We demonstrate Bragg diffraction of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin and the dye molecule phthalocyanine at a thick optical grating. The observed patterns show a single dominant diffra…
Quantum persistent tennis racket dynamics of nanorotors
Yue Ma, Kiran E. Khosla, Benjamin A. Stickler +1
Classical rotations of asymmetric rigid bodies are unstable around the axis of intermediate momentof inertia, causing a flipping of rotor orientation. This effect, known as the ten…
Orbital angular momentum interference of trapped matter waves
Filip Kiałka, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger
We introduce a matter wave interference scheme based on the quantization of orbital angular momentum in a ring trap. It operates without beam splitters, is sensitive to geometric p…
Cooling nanorotors by elliptic coherent scattering
Jonas Schäfer, Henning Rudolph, Klaus Hornberger +1
Simultaneously cooling the rotational and translational motion of nanoscale dielectrics into the quantum regime is an open task of great importance for sensing applications and qua…
Quantum electromechanics with levitated nanoparticles
Lukas Martinetz, Klaus Hornberger, James Millen +2
Preparing and observing quantum states of nanoscale particles is a challenging task with great relevance for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. In contrast to a…