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Schrödinger microbe: Physicists plan to teleport a living organism
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A team of physicists is developing an ambitious new plan to test the quantum superposition principle — where an object can exist in two places at once — on objects that no one has ever tried to use before: they plan to do it with living microorganisms.
In recent experiments, where macroscopic inanimate objects were subjected to quantum superposition, researchers steadily increased the scale of objects, starting with small elementary particles such as photons.
Now it is the turn of living organisms.
Quantum physicists from Purdue University in Indiana and Tsinghua University in Beijing have proposed using the most common microorganism, a single bacterium, to experiment with quantum superposition. While this would not be considered a true teleportation, which involves the object disappearing at the starting point and reappearing elsewhere, it would be an incredible step towards genuine quantum teleportation.
Despite the enormous interest, the state of quantum superposition of the organism has not yet been realized. Therefore, we propose to directly introduce the microbe into the superposition of two spatial states, that is, so that the microbe is in two different positions at the same time, explains scientist Tonkan Lee from Purdue University.
Scientists suggest using a device developed at the University of Colorado with an oscillating aluminum membrane that can hold a state of superposition. They plan to put the Schrödinger microbe on the membrane and put it in a state of superposition. Dr. Lee hopes to prepare and conduct this experiment within the next three years.
“It would be great to put the body in two different places at the same time,” he added. In many fairy tales, a fairy can appear simultaneously in two different places and disappear instantly. It'll be like a fairy tale. Although there will be a microbe instead of a fairy.
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In recent experiments, where macroscopic inanimate objects were subjected to quantum superposition, researchers steadily increased the scale of objects, starting with small elementary particles such as photons.
Now it is the turn of living organisms.
Quantum physicists from Purdue University in Indiana and Tsinghua University in Beijing have proposed using the most common microorganism, a single bacterium, to experiment with quantum superposition. While this would not be considered a true teleportation, which involves the object disappearing at the starting point and reappearing elsewhere, it would be an incredible step towards genuine quantum teleportation.
Despite the enormous interest, the state of quantum superposition of the organism has not yet been realized. Therefore, we propose to directly introduce the microbe into the superposition of two spatial states, that is, so that the microbe is in two different positions at the same time, explains scientist Tonkan Lee from Purdue University.
Scientists suggest using a device developed at the University of Colorado with an oscillating aluminum membrane that can hold a state of superposition. They plan to put the Schrödinger microbe on the membrane and put it in a state of superposition. Dr. Lee hopes to prepare and conduct this experiment within the next three years.
“It would be great to put the body in two different places at the same time,” he added. In many fairy tales, a fairy can appear simultaneously in two different places and disappear instantly. It'll be like a fairy tale. Although there will be a microbe instead of a fairy.
P.S. And remember, just changing our consumption – together we change the world!
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Source: vk.com/wiki_inventions?z=photo-56414092_381400205%2Falbum-56414092_00%2Frev
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