The biggest 'Schrödinger's cat' yet — physicists put 7,000 atoms in superposition
Quantum superposition gets supersized — plus, US science after a year of Trump.
Nature Podcast · [email protected]
January 21, 202626m 32s
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Show Notes
00:46 Protein-sized superposition surpasses previous experiments
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11:46 Research Highlights
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