Perspectives for quantum interference with biomolecules and biomolecular clusters

Autor(en)

Philipp Geyer, Ugur Sezer, Jonas Rodewald, Lukas Mairhofer, Nadine Dörre, Philipp Haslinger, Sandra Eibenberger, Christian Brand, Markus Arndt

Abstrakt

Modern quantum optics encompasses a wide field of phenomena that are either related to the discrete quantum nature of light, the quantum wave nature of matter or light–matter interactions. We here discuss new perspectives for quantum optics with biological nanoparticles. We focus in particular on the prospects of matter-wave interferometry with amino acids, nucleotides, polypeptides or DNA strands. We motivate the challenge of preparing these objects in a 'biomimetic' environment and argue that hydrated molecular beam sources are promising tools for quantum-assisted metrology. The method exploits the high sensitivity of matter-wave interference fringes to dephasing and shifts in the presence of external perturbations to access and determine molecular properties

Organisation(en)

Quantenoptik, Quantennanophysik und Quanteninformation

Journal

Physica Scripta

Band

91

Anzahl der Seiten

12

ISSN

0031-8949

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/91/6/063007

Publikationsdatum

05-2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103025 Quantenmechanik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mathematical Physics

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/47bb3c79-98c0-4ce8-9690-9fa2c84584ee