Testing the limits of quantum mechanical superpositions

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 271-277

  Arndt, Markus ^a   Hornberger, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

MACROSCOPIC DOMAINS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SUPERPOSITION; SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; TABLE-TOP;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84897493099     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2863     Document Type: Review

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