[QIP-Sem] MIT Quantum Information Processing Seminar Reminder

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There will be an MIT QIP seminar TODAY at 14:00 hours in room 4-153, 
which 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.


NB: There will be no QIP seminar on Monday, Nov. 22nd.
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