In an iconic thought experiment, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger imagined a cat that could be dead or alive—a clever ...

Quantum cat states built from intrinsically nonclassical components have been demonstrated by Oxford physicists in a trapped ...

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“More than one reality exists” screams the headline. Cue sighs of tired dread from physicists everywhere as they wonder what otherwise bland result has been spun out of control. In this case, though, ...

Schrödinger’s cat, famously, is both alive and dead – but what if it could be something else as well? Researchers at the ...

Red and blue: a photon of two colours has been made. (Courtesy: iStock/-strizh-) Individual photons have been put into a quantum superposition of two different colours by a team of physicists in the ...

Erwin Schrödinger's famous thought experiment, in which we consider a cat inside a box containing a sample of radioactive material whose decay triggers a hammer to break a vial of poison that kills ...