Probing macroscopic realism via Ramsey correlation measurements

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2014, Pages

  Asadian, A ^a   Brukner, C ^b,c   Rabl, P ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY;

CONTEXTUALITY; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CORRELATION MEASUREMENT; INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENTS; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; NANOMECHANICAL RESONATORS; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84901044224     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.190402     Document Type: Article

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