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Macroscopic quantum superpositions are widely believed to be unobservable because large systems cannot be perfectly isolated from their environments. Here, we show that even under perfect isolation, intrinsic unitary dynamics with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Gabriel Dias Carvalho , Pedro S. Correia , Thiago R. de Oliveira

Schr\"odinger's cat is an iconic example for the problem of the transition from the microscopic quantum world to the macroscopic, classical one. It opened many interesting questions such as, could a macroscopic superposition like a dead and…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-06-04 Andrea López-Incera , Wolfgang Dür , Stefan Heusler

The question whether quantum mechanics is complete and the nature of the transition between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics have intrigued physicists for decades. There have been many experimental breakthroughs in creating larger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 Zhang-qi Yin , Tongcang Li

Modeling the Schr\"{o}dinger cat by a two state system and assuming that the cat is coupled to the environment we look for the least paradoxical states of the Schr\"{o}dinger cat in the following way. We require the reduced density matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey Pereverzev

We consider the characterization of quantum superposition states beyond the pattern "dead and alive". We propose a measure that is applicable to superpositions of multiple macroscopically distinct states, superpositions with different…

The entangled "Schrodinger's cat state" of a quantum and its measurement apparatus is not a paradoxical superposition of states but is instead a non-paradoxical superposition of nonlocal coherent correlations between states: An un-decayed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

Schroedinger's famous thought experiment involves a (macroscopic) cat whose quantum state becomes entangled with that of a (microscopic) decaying nucleus. The creation of such micro-macro entanglement is currently being pursued in several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. I. Lvovsky , R. Ghobadi , A. Chandra , A. S. Prasad , C. Simon

In this lecture, intended for a general audience, I describe Schr\"odinger's thought experiment which was designed to show the strange results of extending the formalism of quantum theory, particularly the idea of superposition, beyond the…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Anthony Sudbery

The Schr\"{o}dinger cat state produced differently in two directions is anticipated to be a critical quantum resource in quantum information technologies. By exploring the interplay between quantum nonreciprocity and topology in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Zi-Hao Li , Li-Li Zheng , Ying Wu , Xin-You Lü

The Schr\"odinger equation predicts the validity of the superposition principle at any scale, yet we do not experience cats being in a superposition of "dead" and "alive" in our everyday lives. Modifications to quantum theory at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Matteo Fadel

We present a straightforward scheme for creating macroscopic superpositions of different superfluid flow states of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices. This scheme has the great advantage that all the techniques required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Dunningham , David Hallwood

We discuss the possibility of generating and detecting, by a tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner function, a macroscopic superposition of two coherent states. The superposition state is created using a conditioned measurement on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Genovese , C. Novero

Quantum superposition states are behind many of the curious phenomena exhibited by quantum systems, including Bell non-locality, quantum interference, quantum computational speed-up, and the measurement problem. At the same time, many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 John-Mark A. Allen

Using different optical setups based on squeezed state and photon subtraction we show how optical entanglement between a macroscopic and a microscopic state - the so-called Schrodinger cat state or micro-macro state - can be generated. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Ulrik L. Andersen , Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen

It has been a long-standing goal to bring massive objects into a superposition of different locations in real space, not only to confirm quantum theory in new regimes, but also to explore the interface with gravity. The main challenge is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Carsten Henkel , Ron Folman

It is argued that the orthodox interpretation of quantum mechanics is in conflict with the objective existence of space-time, and suggested that kets are labels which name real states of matter but do not directly describe them. Position is…

General Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Charles Francis

Matter gets organized at several levels of structural rearrangements. At mesoscopic level one can distinguish between two types of rearrangements, conforming to different close-packing or densification conditions, appearing during different…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-03 Adam Gadomski , Marcel Ausloos

Non-Gaussian states, and specifically the paradigmatic Schr\"odinger cat state, are well-known to be very sensitive to losses. When propagating through damping channels, these states quickly loose their non-classical features and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 H. Le Jeannic , A. Cavaillès , K. Huang , R. Filip , J. Laurat

The linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation does not predict that macroscopic bodies should be located at one place only. Quantum mechanics textbooks generally solve the problem by introducing the projection postulate, which forces definite values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Franck Laloë

For nearly 100 years, the paradox of Schr\"odinger's Cat has remained unresolved. Why does the world we live in appear classical despite being composed of quantum particles governed by the Schr\"odinger wave equation? Lajos Di\'osi and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 James Tagg , William Reid , Daniel Carlin