Noninvasive electron microscopy with interaction-free quantum measurements
Abstract
We propose the use of interaction-free quantum measurements with electrons to eliminate sample damage in electron microscopy. This might allow noninvasive molecular-resolution imaging. We show the possibility of such measurements in the presence of experimentally measured quantum decoherence rates and using a scheme based on existing charged particle trapping techniques.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- October 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040902
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvA..80d0902P
- Keywords:
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- 07.78.+s;
- 42.50.Dv;
- Electron positron and ion microscopes;
- electron diffractometers;
- Nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field including entangled photon states;
- quantum state engineering and measurements