A Kapitza–Dirac–Talbot–Lau interferometer for highly polarizable molecules

STEFAN GERLICH1, LUCIA HACKERMÜLLER1*, KLAUS HORNBERGER2, ALEXANDER STIBOR1, HENDRIK ULBRICHT1, MICHAEL GRING1, FABIENNE GOLDFARB1‡, TIM SAVAS3, MARCEL MÜRI4, MARCEL MAYOR4,5 AND MARKUS ARNDT1 Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 37, 80333 München, Germany Nanostructures Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307, USA University of Basel, Department of Chemistry, St Johannsring 19, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH, Institute for Nanotechnology, PO Box 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany *Present address: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Staudingerweg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany Present address: Phys. Institut der Universität Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Present address: Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS-UPR 3321, Bat. 505, Campus Univ., F-91405 Orsay, France §e-mail: [email protected]