A tiny vibrating crystal weighing little more than a grain of sand has become the heaviest object ever to be recorded in a superposition of locations.
While no actual cats have ever been threatened by a quantum experiment – because, you know, ethics – the theory remains clear. Objects as large as cats, or indeed, humans, elephants, or evenThe mathematics leave little room for doubt, yet observing the effects of such a blurred existence on a large scale is a whole other story.
"By putting the two oscillation states of the crystal in a superposition, we have effectively created a Schrödinger cat weighing 16 micrograms,"For the roles of a radioactive atom, Geiger counter, and poison, the team used a, a superconducting circuit that served as the experiment's power source, sensor, and superposition.
Just how big future experiments could go is an open question. On a practical front, pushing the limits of scale on superposition could lead to new methods for making quantum technology more robust or form the basis of ever-more sensitive tools for studying matter and the cosmos.
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