A matter-wave interferometer is ‘universal’ if it can be applied to any atom or molecule irrespective of its internal state. This removes the need to prepare a spatially coherent incident beam.

Matter wave interferometry has a long standing tradition at the University of Vienna, where the first quantum interference of large molecules has already been observed in 1999.

At the heart of this breakthrough device is something called "matter wave interferometry," which uses two distinct characteristics of quantum mechanics: wave-particle duality and superposition.

Oct 22, 2022: An entangled matter-wave interferometer: Now with double the spookiness (Nanowerk News) JILA and NIST Fellow James K. Thompson’s team of researchers have for the first time successfully ...

But scientists still have problems conducting matter-wave interferometry on larger molecules because they can easily be broken down into pieces during a measurement. Back in 1999, Arndt and his ...

From Matter Waves To A Crystal Of Atoms And Back Date: January 11, 2002 Source: Max Planck Society Summary: Researchers at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching and at the Ludwig ...

Matter waves constitute a crucial feature of quantum mechanics, where particles have wave properties in addition to particle characteristics. This wave-particle duality was postulated already in ...

Members of the Berkeley matter-wave interferometry group in the lab. Left-to-right: Victoria Xu, Cristian Panda, Matt Jaffe.(Courtesy: Carter Turnbaugh) The researchers begin their gravitational ...

Cold atoms in space could target gravitational waves. Shimon Kolkowitz of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US points out that many other proposals based on matter-wave interferometry use ...

The Matter-Wave Interferometry in Microgravity experiment (MAIUS-1) launched on a sounding rocket from the Esrange Space Center in Sweden on Jan. 23, 2017.