Speaker
Martin Thalhammer
(TU-Wien)
Description
One class of gravity experiments within the qBounce project focuses on the realization of a Quantum Bouncing Ball, in particular a measurement of the time evolution of a neutron bouncing above a horizontal plane.
We measured the spatial probability distribution of this Schrödinger wave packet for different observation times with a spatial resolution of about 1.8μm.
We illustrate the role of interference weaving the quantum carpet of several quantum states. After a first quantum reflection, several snapshots show the fall of the wave packet.
Author
Martin Thalhammer
(TU-Wien)
Co-authors
Hanno Filter
(Atominstitut TU Wien)
Mr
Tobias Rechberger
(TU-Wien)
Tobias JENKE
(Atominstitut TU Wien)
Peter Geltenbort
(Institut Laue-Langevin)
Andrei Ivanov
(Atominstitut TU Wien)
Mario Pitschmann
(Atominstitut TU Wien)
Prof.
Hartmut Abele
(University of Technology Vienna)
