Shaking Schroedinger's cat (VIDEO)

Washington University in St. Louis

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Murch explains research in his physics lab that shows that 'looking at' an atom can either speed up or slow down its decay and the death of the hypothetical cat. Slowing down is called the quantum Zeno effect and speeding up the quantum anti-Zeno effect. Further, his lab finds, these effects occur if you just disturb atom without learning anything about its state.

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Kater Murch

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