{
  "id": "quant-ph/0105061",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-05-14T07:25:31.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-05-14T07:25:31.000Z",
  "title": "Experimental verification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for hot fullerene molecules",
  "authors": [
    "Olaf Nairz",
    "Markus Arndt",
    "Anton Zeilinger"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 4 figures",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.65.032109",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "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.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-05-14T07:25:31.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "heisenberg uncertainty principle",
      "hot fullerene molecules",
      "experimental verification",
      "essential corner stone",
      "first interference minimum"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. A"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}