ESF Exploratory Workshop on Complex Quantum Systems as in “ESF Highlights 2007”

The figure shows a new type of molecule interferometer (a Kapitza-Dirac Talbot Lau interferometer) which has been recently developed by the Vienna research group around Markus Arndt [1], in fruitful interdisciplinary and transnational collaboration with chemists at the University of Basel and nanotechnologist at MIT, Cambridge. A new class of molecular chains (perfluoroalkyl-functionalized azobenzenes) could thus be shown to propagate as molecular waves – in spite