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SUBMITTER: Knee GC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5097155 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Knee George C GC Kakuyanagi Kosuke K Yeh Mao-Chuang MC Matsuzaki Yuichiro Y Toida Hiraku H Yamaguchi Hiroshi H Saito Shiro S Leggett Anthony J AJ Munro William J WJ
Nature communications 20161104
Macroscopic realism is the name for a class of modifications to quantum theory that allow macroscopic objects to be described in a measurement-independent manner, while largely preserving a fully quantum mechanical description of the microscopic world. Objective collapse theories are examples which aim to solve the quantum measurement problem through modified dynamical laws. Whether such theories describe nature, however, is not known. Here we describe and implement an experimental protocol capa ...[more]