Quantum waves seen in molecules

[brain pickeR]

In 1999, Zeilinger and his colleagues fired beams of "carbon-60" or "carbon-70" molecules (so named because each molecule contains 60 or 70 carbon atoms) at a device called a diffraction grating. The individual molecules spread out in wavelike patterns, creating "interference patterns" visible on a monitor. This proved that even very hefty molecules can experience quantum effects -- and, thus, can literally be in more than one place at a time, crazy though this sounds.

-Link (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/22/QUANTUM.TMP&type=science)

[ZapperZ]

Originally posted by brain pickeR
In 1999, Zeilinger and his colleagues fired beams of "carbon-60" or "carbon-70" molecules (so named because each molecule contains 60 or 70 carbon atoms) at a device called a diffraction grating. The individual molecules spread out in wavelike patterns, creating "interference patterns" visible on a monitor. This proved that even very hefty molecules can experience quantum effects -- and, thus, can literally be in more than one place at a time, crazy though this sounds.

-Link (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/02/22/QUANTUM.TMP&type=science)

I think you are about 4 years behind. The Zeilinger's group has gone on to publish a few more of these, the most recent one being the observation of wave-like nature in tetraphenylporphyrin and fluorofullerene.[1] These are at least twice as big as C70 molecules. They currently hold the record in terms of size and mass.

Zz.

[1] L. Hackermüller et al., PRL v.91, p.090408 (2003).