The life and entangled adventures of Schrodinger's cat

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06387v2
• Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:01:22 GMT
• Title: The life and entangled adventures of Schrodinger's cat
• Authors: Anthony Sudbery
• Abstract summary: I describe a way to understand superposition in the terms of formal logic. I trace the development of Schrodinger's ideas after this thought experiment.
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• Abstract: In this lecture, intended for a general audience, I describe Schr\"odinger's thought experiment which was designed to show the strange results of extending the formalism of quantum theory, particularly the idea of superposition, beyond the subatomic regime. I describe a way to understand superposition in the terms of formal logic. I trace the development of Schrodinger's ideas after this thought experiment, and briefly sketch some work which realises it in actual experiments, and proposals for taking it further.

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