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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Detecting non-locality in macroscopic systems

Nicolò Spagnolo, Chiara Vitelli, Mauro Paternostro, Lorenzo Toffoli, F. De Martini, Fabio Sciarrino

Published May 1, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

The possibility to observe quantum features at the macroscopic level stands out as one of the most challenging yet fascinating open questions in modern quantum physics. The difficulties inherent in such a quest are manifold. First, the unavoidable interaction with the surrounding environment lies deeply at the roots of the loss of coherence and corruption of quantum correlations in a quantum state, being more severe as the size of the system being studied grows. Second, one faces the debated problem of achieving a measurement-precision that is sufficient to observe quantum effects at such macro-scales. Recent studies have shown that, depending on the Hamiltonian models, classicality may emerge from the coarse-graininess of measurements performed over a quantum system.

DOI
10.1109/cleoe.2011.5943381

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