Scientists have successfully pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to new limits by maintaining superposition for an unprecedented 23 minutes. This breakthrough has significant implications for future research in physics, potentially allowing for the detection and study of magnetic forces, probing exotic effects, or enabling stable quantum computer memory.
Maintaining Superposition for 23 Minutes
Generally, disturbances from the environment would cause the atoms to collapse into a single state within seconds or milliseconds, but the researchers were able to tune the lasers precisely to maintain them for an unprecedented duration of 1,400 seconds, or 23 minutes.
Implications
Because it extends superposition for so long, such a technique, if it is proved to be possible, could in the future be used to detect and study magnetic forces, probe new and exotic effects in physics, or even allow for very stable quantum computer memory.
