Schrödinger’s cat now dead and alive in two boxes at once
Feline-mimicking microwaves offer benefits for quantum computing
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CAT CLUES Schrödinger’s mythical cat is alive and dead at the same time. Scientists have wrangled microwaves into similarly bizarre quantum states, and now they are taking the experiment a step further, splitting one catlike state into two boxes.
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