Experimental physicist Francesca Ferlaino and quantum theorist Hannes Pichler received research prizes from the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation on Wednesday for their current work. The award ceremony took place in the auditorium of the University of Innsbruck.
Be fast, avoid light, and roll through a curvy ramp: This is the recipe for a pioneering experiment proposed by theoretical physicists in a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters. An object evolving in a potential created through electrostatic or magnetic forces is expected to rapidly and reliably generate a macroscopic quantum superposition state.
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