Quantum decoherence

M Schlosshauer - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantum decoherence plays a pivotal role in the dynamical description of the quantum-to-
classical transition and is the main impediment to the realization of devices for quantum …

Optomechanics with levitated particles

J Millen, TS Monteiro, R Pettit… - Reports on Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Optomechanics is concerned with the use of light to control mechanical objects. As a field, it
has been hugely successful in the production of precise and novel sensors, the …

Matter-wave atomic gradiometer interferometric sensor (MAGIS-100)

M Abe, P Adamson, M Borcean… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
MAGIS-100 is a next-generation quantum sensor under construction at Fermilab that aims to
explore fundamental physics with atom interferometry over a 100 m baseline. This novel …

Quantum superposition of molecules beyond 25 kDa

YY Fein, P Geyer, P Zwick, F Kiałka, S Pedalino… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Matter-wave interference experiments provide a direct confirmation of the quantum
superposition principle, a hallmark of quantum theory, and thereby constrain possible …

Collective-mode enhanced matter-wave optics

C Deppner, W Herr, M Cornelius, P Stromberger… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
In contrast to light, matter-wave optics of quantum gases deals with interactions even in free
space and for ensembles comprising millions of atoms. We exploit these interactions in a …

Quantum acoustics with superconducting qubits

Y Chu, P Kharel, WH Renninger, LD Burkhart… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Mechanical objects have important practical applications in the fields of quantum information
and metrology as quantum memories or transducers for measuring and connecting different …

Quantum superposition at the half-metre scale

T Kovachy, P Asenbaum, C Overstreet, CA Donnelly… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The quantum superposition principle allows massive particles to be delocalized over distant
positions. Though quantum mechanics has proved adept at describing the microscopic …

Testing the limits of quantum mechanical superpositions

M Arndt, K Hornberger - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Quantum physics has intrigued scientists and philosophers alike, because it challenges our
notions of reality and locality—concepts that we have grown to rely on in our macroscopic …

Leggett–garg inequalities

C Emary, N Lambert, F Nori - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
In contrast to the spatial Bell's inequalities which probe entanglement between spatially
separated systems, the Leggett–Garg inequalities test the correlations of a single system …

Probing gravity by holding atoms for 20 seconds

V Xu, M Jaffe, CD Panda, SL Kristensen, LW Clark… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Atom interferometers are powerful tools for both measurements in fundamental physics and
inertial sensing applications. Their performance, however, has been limited by the available …