SGER: Exploratory Research into Producing Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions

SGER：产生宏观量子叠加的探索性研究

• 批准号: 0334970
• 负责人: Dirk Bouwmeester
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0334970&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Exploratory; Research; into; Producing

This SGER award is to allow the investigator to conduct preliminary experiments to test the feasibility of a scheme for creating quantum superposition states involving a very large number of atoms via the interaction of a single photon with a tiny mirror. Such quantum superpositions will be more massive than any quantum superpositions observed to date and will therefore provide fundamental tests of quantum mechanics in an entirely new regime. If successful, the results of this effort could lead to a larger scale project that has spin-off to a broad range of applications in that arena where the behavior of systems, even macroscopic systems, is dominated by quantum behavior.

这一SGER奖是为了允许研究人员进行初步实验，以测试一种方案的可行性，该方案通过单光子与微小镜子的相互作用来创建涉及非常大量原子的量子叠加态。这样的量子叠加将比迄今观察到的任何量子叠加都要大，因此将在一个全新的领域提供量子力学的基本测试。如果成功，这一努力的结果可能会导致一个更大规模的项目，它将衍生出一个广泛的应用领域，在这个领域，系统的行为，甚至宏观系统，都是由量子行为主导的。