Testing macroscopic realism through high-mass interferometry
- Author(s)
- Clive Emary, J. P. Cotter, Markus Arndt
- Abstract
We define a quantum witness for high-mass matter-wave interferometers that allows us to test fundamental assumptions of macroscopic realism. We propose an experimental realization using absorptive laser gratings and show that such systems can strongly violate a macrorealistic quantum-witness equality. The measurement of the witness can therefore provide clear evidence of physics beyond macrorealism for macromolecules and nanoparticles.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- External organisation(s)
- University of Hull
- Journal
- Physical Review A
- Volume
- 90
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.042114
- Publication date
- 10-2014
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103025 Quantum mechanics, 103026 Quantum optics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/testing-macroscopic-realism-through-highmass-interferometry(26acfe45-ff42-49b0-9a05-0376739a2a34).html