| Автор | Rosa Poggiani |
| Дата выпуска | 2003-02-21 |
| dc.description | Gravitational acceleration has been measured with high precision using macroscopic probes and for a few quantum probes. A recent diffraction experiment (Arndt M et al 1999 Nature 401 680) has demonstrated the wave-particle duality for the C<sub>60</sub> fullerene molecules. In this paper, a new method to measure gravitational acceleration with fullerene molecules is proposed. The g value is deduced from the measurement of the phase shift of a thermal beam in a three-grating Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The experimental setup and the uncertainty sources are discussed. A measurement with a precision of 1 × 10<sup>−4</sup> is feasible with 10<sup>8</sup> thermal fullerene molecules and gratings with 500 nm period. The precision achievable by the proposed method is limited by the velocity spread of the fullerene beam. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Institute of Physics Publishing |
| Название | Measurement of the gravitational acceleration of fullerene molecules |
| Тип | paper |
| DOI | 10.1088/0264-9381/20/4/301 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1361-6382 |
| Print ISSN | 0264-9381 |
| Журнал | Classical and Quantum Gravity |
| Том | 20 |
| Первая страница | 567 |
| Последняя страница | 573 |
| Аффилиация | Rosa Poggiani; Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Pisa, Italy; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Pisa, Italy |
| Выпуск | 4 |
