Opening up three quantum boxes causes classically undetectable wavefunction collapse

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3777-3781

  George, Richard E ^a   Robledo, Lucio M ^b   Maroney, Owen J E ^a   Blok, Machiel S ^b   Bernien, Hannes ^b   Markham, Matthew L ^c   Twitchen, Daniel J ^c   Morton, John J L ^d   Briggs, G Andrew D ^a   Hanson, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c ELEMENT SIX LTD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leggett garg; Quantum contextuality; Quantum non demolition measurement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXCITATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; WAVEFORM; WAVEFUNCTION;

EID: 84874602636     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208374110     Document Type: Article

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