{"id":163145,"date":"2023-05-01T13:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-set-new-quantum-record-with-heaviest-schrodinger-cat-yet"},"modified":"2023-05-01T13:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T18:22:30","slug":"physicists-set-new-quantum-record-with-heaviest-schrodinger-cat-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/physicists-set-new-quantum-record-with-heaviest-schrodinger-cat-yet","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Set New Quantum Record With Heaviest \u2018Schr\u00f6dinger Cat\u2019 Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-set-new-quantum-record-with-heaviest-schrodinger-cat-yet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tiny vibrating crystal weighing little more than a grain of sand has become the heaviest object ever to be recorded in a superposition of locations.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich coupled a mechanical resonator to a type of superconducting circuit commonly used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">quantum computing<\/a> to effectively replicate Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s famous thought experiment on an unprecedented scale.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Schr\u00f6dinger would be somewhat skeptical that anything so large \u2013 well, anything at all \u2013 could exist in a nebulous state of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tiny vibrating crystal weighing little more than a grain of sand has become the heaviest object ever to be recorded in a superposition of locations. Physicists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich coupled a mechanical resonator to a type of superconducting circuit commonly used in quantum computing to effectively replicate Erwin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}