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Scientists Produce ‘Schrödinger Cats’ from Light Waves

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Erwin Schrödinger famously related the idea of a cat simultaneously dead and alive to the idea that particles behaving according to quantum physics can occupy simultaneously two opposite states. Now researchers at Université Paris-Sud in Palaiseau, France, and at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, have generated light waves that simultaneously have two opposite phases and are thus optical Schrödinger cats. Side view of experimental results, showing Schrödinger cat photons. Reprinted with permission of Nature. The scientists said that the ability to generate particles...Read full article

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    Published: September 2007
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