The ‘Schrödinger’s virus’ experiment
SEP 18, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023695
Nature News : Suspending a cat between life and death is one of the best-known thought experiments in quantum mechanics.Now researchers from Germany and Spain are proposing a real experiment to probe whether a virus can exist in a superposition of two quantum states.Such superpositions are typically the domain of smaller, inanimate objects such as atoms. But the team believes that their technique, using finely tuned lasers, will soon allow for the superposition of something much closer to a living organism. They outline the experiment in a paper posted to the arXiv pre-print server. Related Link Towards quantum superposition of living organisms
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