Macroscopic quantum mechanics in a classical spacetime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 17, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Huan ^a   Miao, Haixing ^a   Lee, Da Shin ^a,b   Helou, Bassam ^a   Chen, Yanbei ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; HARMONIC POTENTIAL WELL; INTERNAL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MACROSCOPIC OBJECTS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; QUANTUM WAVE FUNCTIONS; SPACE TIME GEOMETRY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EQUATIONS OF MOTION;

EID: 84876741172     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.170401     Document Type: Article

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