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Schr\"odinger's thought experiment to prepare a cat in a superposition of both alive and dead states reveals profound consequences of quantum mechanics and has attracted enormous interests. Here we propose a straightforward method to create…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Tongcang Li , Zhang-Qi Yin

This paper reviews and suggests a resolution of the problem of definite outcomes of measurement. This problem, also known as "Schrodinger's cat," has long posed an apparent paradox because the state resulting from a measurement appears to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

The quantum state of Schroedinger's cat is usually incorrectly described as a superposition of "dead" and "alive," despite an argument by Rinner and Werner that, locally, the cat should be considered to be in a mixture of non-superposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

We introduce the `Complete Wave Function' and deduce that all living beings, not just Schroedinger's cat, are actually described by a superposition of `alive' and `dead' quantum states; otherwise they would never die. Therefore this…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Beatriz Gato , Beatriz Gato-Rivera

In this paper we re-investigate the core of Schroedinger's 'cat paradox'. We argue that one has to distinguish clearly between superpositions of macroscopic cat states and superpositions of entangled states which comprise both the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Rinner , E. Werner

The most striking feature of quantum mechanics is the existence of superposition states, where an object appears to be in different situations at the same time. The existence of such states has been tested with small objects, like atoms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 Oriol Romero-Isart , Mathieu L. Juan , Romain Quidant , J. Ignacio Cirac

We discuss V.P. Belavkin's (2007) approach to the Schr\"odinger cat problem and show its close relation to ideas based on superselection and interaction with the environment developed by N.P. Landsman (1995). The purpose of the paper is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Richard D. Gill

It is shown that discrete-event simulation accurately reproduces the experimental data of a single-neutron interferometry experiment [T. Denkmayr {\sl et al.}, Nat. Commun. 5, 4492 (2014)] and provides a logically consistent, paradox-free,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Kristel Michielsen , Thomas Lippert , Hans De Raedt

I present a simple variant of the Schr\"odinger cat meets Wigner's friend thought experiment. If you are shocked by it, you have not understood quantum physics (no words are missing from this sentence).

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 Vlatko Vedral

The Cheshire cat principle emerges naturally from the holographic approach of the nucleon in terms of a bulk instanton. The cat hides in the holographic direction. I briefly review the one-nucleon problem in the holographic limit.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Ismail Zahed

Schrodinger's famous cat has long been misunderstood. According to quantum theory and experiments with entangled systems, an entangled state such as the Schrodinger's cat state is neither a superposition of states of either subsystem nor a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

Wave-particle duality is one of the most intriguing counterfactual concepts in quantum theory. In our common sense, the wave and particle properties of a quantum object are inseparable. However, the recent studies based on Quantum Cheshire…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Yusuf Turek , Yi-Fang Ren

Arguments have been raised that the system--observer cut of quantum mechanics can be shifted arbitrarily close to, or even into, the conscious observer. Here I show that this view leads to {\it observable} contradictions (despite our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernd A. Berg

We propose a quantum optical version of Schr\"{o}dinger's famous gedanken experiment in which the state of a microscopic system (a cavity field) becomes entangled with and disentangled from the state of a massive object (a movable mirror).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 S. Bose , K. Jacobs , P. L. Knight

We study the possibility to create many-particle Schr\"odinger cat-like states by using a Feshbach resonance to reverse the sign of the scattering length of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a double-well potential. To address the issue…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. P. Huang , M. G. Moore

We introduce a visual representation for generating entangled-based quantum effects under pre- and post- selected states that allows us to reveal equivalence between seemingly different quantum effects. We show how to realize entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Yakir Aharonov , Tomer Shushi

This article is devoted to the study of which appears as the most famous paradoxes of quantum theory (Schrodinger cat, EPR argument and Aspect experiments, delayed choice experiments and retrocausality problems). Through these experiments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Daniel Parrochia

We summarize a recently proposed resolution of the quantum measurement problem. It stems from an insight into entanglement demonstrated in a 1991 experiment involving photon momenta. This experiment shows that, when two superposed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Art Hobson

The basic idea here is that observation (or one's experience) is fundamental and the `atomic world' is postulated as the source of such observation. Once this source has been inferred to exist one may attempt to explicitly derive its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Matthew F. Brown

In Rydberg dressed ultra-cold gases, ground state atoms inherit properties of a weakly admixed Rydberg state, such as sensitivity to long-range interactions. We show that through hyperfine-state dependent interactions, a pair of atom clouds…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 S. Möbius , M. Genkin , A. Eisfeld , S. Wüster , J. -M. Rost