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LATE BAPC NOTICE
Title: LATE BAPC NOTICE
The following MIT QIP seminar will take place on FRIDAY, Nov.
19 at 14:00 hours in room 4-153, and features:
Testing the Limits of Quantum
Mechanics: Motivation, State of Play, and Prospects
by Anthony Leggett
(Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ABSTRACT
I present the motivation for experiments which attempt to
generate,and verify the existence of,quantum superpositions of two or
more states which are by some reasonable criterion
"macroscopically" distinct,and show that various a priori
objections to this program made in the literature are flawed.I review
the extent to which such experiments currently exist in the areas of
free-space molecular diffraction,magnetic biomolecules, quantum optics
and Josephson devices,and sketch possible future lines of development
of the program.