Extreme quantum entanglement in a superposition of macroscopically distinct states
- 8 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 65 (15), 1838-1840
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.65.1838
Abstract
A Bell inequality is derived for a state of n spin-1/2 particles which superposes two macroscopically distinct states. Quantum mechanics violates this inequality by an amount that grows exponentially with n.Keywords
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