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Quantum interference observed in collisions between methane molecules and gold surface

09 Apr 2025 Isabelle Dumé
the interior of a vacuum chamber during a scattering experiment. The detector is shown as a grey box at top right, while the Au(111) gold surface is shown in yellow. Lines running from the surface to the detector indicate the path of the scattering molecular beam.
Molecular paths: The interior of the vacuum chamber during a scattering experiment. The detector is shown in grey (top right) and the Au(111) gold surface is shown in yellow. The lines indicate the path of the scattering molecular beam. (Courtesy: Christopher Reilly/EPFL)
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