{"id":199984,"date":"2024-11-22T19:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/unitary-collapse-of-schrodingers-cat-state"},"modified":"2024-11-22T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T01:32:02","slug":"unitary-collapse-of-schrodingers-cat-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/unitary-collapse-of-schrodingers-cat-state","title":{"rendered":"Unitary collapse of Schrodinger\u2019s cat state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unitary-collapse-of-schrodingers-cat-state2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unitary collapse of Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat state <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pra\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevA.110.L030202\">https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pra\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevA.110.L030202<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat, that iconic thought experiment where a cat in a box is both alive and dead until someone peeks.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The authors study a system composed of a single qubit coupled to a soft-mode quantum oscillator. They show that spontaneous unitary evolution of this system create a Schr\\ odinger-cat-like state of the oscillator, which is subsequently lost in a sudden process strongly resembling the measurement-induced collapse of wave function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unitary collapse of Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat state https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/pra\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevA.110.L030202 Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat, that iconic thought experiment where a cat in a box is both alive and dead until someone peeks. The authors study a system composed of a single qubit coupled to a soft-mode quantum oscillator. They show that spontaneous unitary evolution of this system create a Schr\\ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199984","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}