Strictly nonclassical behavior of a mesoscopic system
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Sørensen, Anders S.
Hu, Jiazhong
Vendeiro, Zachary Michael
Chen, Wenlan
Zhang, Hao
McConnell, Robert P.
Vuletic, Vladan
Date Issued
March 2017
Journal
Physical Review A
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American Physical Society
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Hu, Jiazhong et al. “Strictly Nonclassical Behavior of a Mesoscopic System.” Physical Review A 95.3 (2017): n. pag. © 2017 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate the strictly nonclassical behavior in a many-atom system using a recently derived criterion [E. Kot et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233601 (2012)] that explicitly does not make use of quantum mechanics. We thereby show that the magnetic-moment distribution measured by McConnell et al. [Nature (London) 519, 439 (2015)] in a system with a total mass of 2.6×10[superscript 5] atomic mass units is inconsistent with classical physics. Notably, the strictly nonclassical behavior affects an area in phase space 10[superscript 3] times larger than the Planck quantum ℏ.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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