• 文献标题:   Coherent diffraction of hydrogen through the 246 pm lattice of graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BRAND C, DEBIOSSAC M, SUSI T, AGUILLON F, KOTAKOSKI J, RONCIN P, ARNDT M
  • 作者关键词:   matterwave diffraction, 2d material, density functional theory, atomic interference
  • 出版物名称:   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1367-2630
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Vienna
  • 被引频次:   4
  • DOI:   10.1088/1367-2630/ab05ed
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We study the diffraction of neutral hydrogen atoms through suspended single-layer graphene using molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional theory. Although the atoms have to overcome a transmission barrier, we find that the de Broglie wave function for Hat 80 eV has a high probability to be coherently transmitted through about 18% of the graphene area, contrary to the case of He. We propose an experiment to realize the diffraction of atoms at the natural hexagon lattice period of 246 pm, leading to a more than 400-fold increase in beam separation of the coherently split atomic wave function compared to diffraction experiments at state-of-the art nano-machined masks. We expect this unusual wide coherent beam splitting to give rise to novel applications in atom interferometry.