Effective Size of Certain Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 21, 2002, Pages

  Dür, Wolfgang ^a   Simon, Christoph ^b   Cirac, J Ignacio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENTROPY; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM SUPERPOSITIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037132204     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.210402     Document Type: Article

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