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Polarizability measurements in a molecule near-field interferometer

Martin Berninger, André Stefanov, Sarayut Deachapunya, Markus Arndt

abstract: We apply near-field matter-wave interferometry to determine the absolute scalar polarizability of the fullerenes C$_{60}$ and C$_{70}$. A key feature of our experiment is the combination of good transmission and high spatial resolution, gained by wide molecular beams passing through sub-micron gratings. This allows to significantly facilitate the observation of field-dependent beam shifts. We thus measure the polarizability to be $\alpha=88.9 \pm 0.9 \pm 5.1 \rm \AA^{3}$ for C$_{60}$ and to $\alpha = 108.5 \pm 2.0 \pm 6.2 \rm \AA^{3}$ for C$_{70}$.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0701179
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
4 pages, 4 figures
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.013607
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0701179
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev. A 76, 013607 (2007)
created:
2007-01-25

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