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Introduction. The Quantum World. The “Schrödinger’s Cat” Experiment (1935). The cat is isolated from the environment. The state of the cat is entangled to the one of a typical quantum system : an atom !. “alive”. “dead”. The Quantum World. AND ?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Introduction

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The Quantum World

The “Schrödinger’s Cat” Experiment (1935)

The cat is isolated from the environment

The state of the cat is entangled to the one of a typical quantum system : an atom !

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The Quantum World

The cat is actually a detector of the atom’s state

• Result “dead” : the atom is disintegrated

• Result “alive” : the atom is excited

“dead”“alive”

AND ?

Entanglement

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AND ?OR !

“dead”“alive”

The Quantum World

Quantum Decoherence : Interaction with the environment leads to a transition into a more classical behavior, in agreement with the common intuition !

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The Quantum World

Measurement Postulate

The state of the measured system, just after a measurement, is the state in which we measure the system.

Before the measurement : the system can be in a superposition of different states. One can only make predictions about measurement results.

After the measurement : Update of the state provided by the measurement …

Measurement Problem ?

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The Wigner’s Friend

Effects of an

observation ?

Amplification of Vital Signs

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Quantum properties of Human Eyes

Wigner representation of the POVM element describing the perception of light

Quantum state retrodicted from the light perception

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Quantum state of the cat (C), the light (D) and the atom (N)

State conditioned on the light perception

Effects of an observation

Quantum decoherence induced by the observation

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Let us imagine a detector of “Schrödinger’s Cat” states of light

Effects of this measurement (projection postulate)

Interests of a non-classical measurement

Quantum coherences are preserved !

“AND”