TOPICAL REVIEW: Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects
Abstract
I present the motivation for experiments which attempt to generate, and verify the existence of, quantum superpositions of two or more states which are by some reasonable criterion `macroscopically' distinct, and show that various a priori objections to this programme made in the literature are flawed. I review the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of free-space molecular diffraction, magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics and Josephson devices, and sketch possible future lines of development of the programme.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- April 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/14/15/201
- Bibcode:
- 2002JPCM...14R.415L