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Lukas Mairhofer1, Sandra Eibenberger2, Armin Shayeghi1
1Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria.
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Matter-wave near-field interference can imprint a nano-scale fringe pattern onto a molecular beam, which allows observing its shifts in the presence of even very small external forces. Here we demonstrate quantum interference of the pre-vitamin 7-dehydrocholesterol and discuss the conceptual challenges of magnetic deflectometry in a near-field interferometer as a tool to explore photochemical processes within molecules whose center of mass is quantum delocalized.
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