Experimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for hot fullerene molecules

Details Experimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for hot fullerene molecules Experimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for hot fullerene molecules

2001-05-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105061v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032109

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle for material objects is an essential corner stone of quantum mechanics and clearly visualizes the wave nature of matter. Here we report a demonstration of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for the most massive, complex and hottest single object so far, the fullerene molecule C70 at a temperature of 900 K. We find a good quantitative agreement with the theoretical expectation: dx * dp = h, where dx is the width of the restricting slit, dp is the momentum transfer required to deflect the fullerene to the first interference minimum and h is Planck's quantum of action.

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