The sapphire crystal resonator used to probe the bounds of quantum mechanics
Matteo Fadel/ETH Zurich
Quantum results have been demonstrated on one of the biggest scales ever, pushing the boundaries of the quantum world. A crystal of 10^16 atoms has been positioned in a superposition of two quantum states, breaking the earlier file of solely 2000 atoms.
When a particle is in a quantum superposition of two states, it occupies each distinct states on the similar time – probably the most well-known instance is Schrödinger’s cat, in which a theoretical cat in …
Article amended on 21 April 2023
We have corrected how the best macroscopicity of any quantum experiment was achieved.