A study on quantum mechanical approach for $C_{60}$ diffraction analysis

TL;DR

This paper applies quantum theory to analyze $C_{60}$ molecule diffraction, including decoherence effects, and demonstrates good agreement with experimental results from a 1999 study.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum mechanical approach to $C_{60}$ diffraction analysis, considering decoherence effects, and aligns theoretical results with experimental data.

Findings

Quantum theory accurately models $C_{60}$ diffraction patterns.

Decoherence effects are significant in double-slit diffraction.

Theoretical results match experimental observations well.

Abstract

Diffraction phenomena of large molecules have been studied in many experiments, and these experiments are described by many theoretical works. In this paper, we study $C_{60}$ molecules single and double-slit diffraction with quantum theory approach, and we pay close attention to the $C_{60}$ diffraction experiment carried out by A.Zeilinger et.at in 1999. In double-slit diffraction, we consider the decoherence effect, and find the theoretical results are good agreement with experimental data.