How do Schrödinger Cats Die?

Jörg Wrachtrup

Ken Krechmer

Calibration to a non-local standard is required to precisely measure the time when Schrödinger's cats die.

Ken Krechmer

Calibration to a non-local standard is required to precisely measure the time when Schrödinger's cats die.

Gregory R. Mulhauser

P. J. Lewis

Ken Krechmer

In 1935 E. Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment to illustrate his concerns with superpositions in quantum measurements. It appears in his experiment that a cat is both alive and dead. This paradoxical superposition has not been explained before. The following identifies that calibration to a reference, currently assumed to be only empirical in measurement theory, explains the paradox of Schrödinger's cats.