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‘Schrödinger Kittens’ Studied

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In pursuit of practical quantum information and computation systems, a team of scientists at Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique in Orsay, France, is investigating so-called Schrödinger kitten states created using photons spontaneously emitted by an optical parametric amplifier. A report of the experiments appeared in the April 7 issue of Science. These quantum superpositions of classical states take the name “kittens” in reference to the imaginary half-dead/half-alive oddity known as Schrödinger’s cat and to the relatively small amplitude of the states involved. The kittens...Read full article

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