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Physics Colloquium:"Testing the limits of quantum mechanics: motivation, state of play, prospects"
Speaker Professor Anthony J. Leggett, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Date May 2, 2012
Time 3:30 pm
Location 141 Loomis Lab
Sponsor Physics Department
Contact Marjorie M. Gamel
E-Mail mgamel@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-3762
Event type Physics Colloquium
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Originating Calendar Physics - Colloquium
I will present the motivation for experiments which attempt to generate,and verify the existence of,quantum superpositions of two or more states which are by some reasonable criterion "macroscopically" distinct, and show that various "a priori" objections to this program made in the literature are flawed. I will review the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of free-space molecular diffraction, magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics and Josephson devices, and sketch possible future lines of development of the program.
