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In Erwin Schrodingers thought experiment, the hypothetical cat can either be alive or dead at the same time in a quantum phenomenon known as superposition. <\/p>\n
Physicists have now found a way to carry out the experiment and reveal the exact point that objects can switch between classical physics and quantum physics physics on a subatomic scale. <\/p>\n
Team leader Alexander Lvovsky, from the University of Calgary and the Russian Quantum Centre, said: \"One of the fundamental questions of physics is the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds. <\/p>\n
Can quantum phenomena, provided ideal conditions, be observed in macroscopic objects? <\/p>\n
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\"Theory gives no answer to this question - maybe there is no such boundary. <\/p>\n
What we need is a tool that will probe it. <\/p>\n
In the researchers experiment, two coherent light waves represented Schrodingers cat for which the fields of the electromagnetic waves pointed in opposite directions at the same time. <\/p>\n
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The University of Calgarys Anastasia Pushkina, co-author of the research, said: In essence, we cause interference of two 'cats' on a beam splitter. <\/p>\n
This leads to an entangled state in the two output channels of that beam splitter. <\/p>\n
In one of these channels, a special detector is placed. <\/p>\n
In the event this detector shows a certain result, a 'cat' is born in the second output whose energy is more than twice that of the initial one. <\/p>\n
When the team measured the results, they found that they could convert a pair of negative Schrodingers cats with an amplitude of 1.15 to a single positive cat with an amplitude of 1.85 in steps which could have huge implications for the quantum physics. <\/p>\n
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Demid Sychev, a graduate student from the Russian Quantum Centre, added: It is important that the procedure can be repeated: new 'cats' can, in turn, be overlapped on a beam splitter, producing one with even higher energy, and so on. <\/p>\n
\"Thus, it is possible to push the boundaries of the quantum world step by step, and eventually to understand whether it has a limit.\" <\/p>\n
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