For my graduate research in Anton Zeilinger’s experimental physics group [7] in Vienna I participated in an experiment that successfully demonstrated quantum behavior for the heaviest particles ever, by sending them – as quantum mechanical matter waves – through a double-slit experiment [8]. The particles were C60 buckminsterfullerenes (or buckyballs for short), named after their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes [9]. Consisting of sixty carbon atoms, buckyballs have the shape of a truncated.
