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I close by reviewing the three main parts of this work from a broader perspective. In the first two we were driven by concrete practical considerations in the context of de Broglie wave interferometry, as pursued in Vienna: how to steer and interfere the center-of-mass motion of heavy nanoparticles. The third part led us away from practical problems and to the deeper theoretical question of what it means to be macroscopic.
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Nimmrichter, S. (2014). Conclusion and Outlook. In: Macroscopic Matter Wave Interferometry. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07097-1_5
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