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This is a progress report on a preliminary feasibility study of experimental setups for preparing and probing a gravitational cat state [1].
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The search for dark matter has been performed mainly for weakly interacting massive particles and massive compact halo objects, and the intermediate mass region has not been investigated experimentally. A method to search dark matter with…
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