Evidence of wave-particle duality for single fast hydrogen atoms

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作者
Schmidt, H. T. [1 ]
Fischer, D. [1 ]
Berenyi, Z. [1 ]
Cocke, C. L. [2 ]
Gudmundsson, M. [1 ]
Haag, N. [1 ]
Johansson, H. A. B. [1 ]
Kaellberg, A. [3 ]
Levin, S. B. [4 ]
Reinhed, P. [1 ]
Sassenberg, U. [1 ]
Schuch, R. [1 ]
Simonsson, A. [3 ]
Stochkel, K. [5 ]
Cederquist, H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Stockholm, Dept Phys, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Kansas State Univ, Dept Phys, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA
[3] Stockholm Univ, Manne Siegbahn Lab, S-10405 Stockholm, Sweden
[4] St Petersburg State Univ, Dept Phys, St Petersburg 198504, Russia
[5] Univ Aarhus, Dept Phys & Astron, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.083201
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O4 [物理学];
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摘要
We report the direct observation of interference effects in a Young's double-slit experiment where the interfering waves are two spatially separated components of the de Broglie wave of single 1.3 MeV hydrogen atoms formed close to either target nucleus in H+ + H-2 electron-transfer collisions. Quantum interference strongly influences the results even though the hydrogen atoms have a de Broglie wavelength, lambda(dB), as small as 25 fm.
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