Schrödinger's cat

Schrödinger's cat: a cat, a flask of poison, and a

radioactive source are placed in a sealed box. If an
internal monitor (e.g. Geiger counter) detects
radioactivity (i.e. a single atom decaying), the flask is
shattered, releasing the poison, which kills the cat. The
Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously
alive and dead. Yet, when one looks in the box, one
sees the cat either alive or dead not both alive and
dead. This poses the question of when exactly
quantum superposition ends and reality collapses into
one possibility or the other.

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment,

sometimes described as a paradox,
devised by Austrian physicist Erwin
Schrödinger in 1935.[1] It illustrates what
he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen
interpretation of quantum mechanics
applied to everyday objects. The scenario
presents a cat that may be simultaneously
both alive and dead,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] a state
known as a quantum superposition, as a
result of being linked to a random
subatomic event that may or may not
occur. The thought experiment is also
often featured in theoretical discussions
of the interpretations of quantum
mechanics. Schrödinger coined the term
Verschränkung (entanglement) in the
course of developing the thought
experiment.

Origin and motivation

Life-size cat figure in the garden of Huttenstrasse 9,

Z i h h E i S h ödi li d 1921 1926
Zurich, where Erwin Schrödinger lived 1921–1926.
Depending on the light conditions, the cat appears
either alive or dead.

Schrödinger intended his thought

experiment as a discussion of the EPR
article—named after its authors Einstein,
Podolsky, and Rosen—in 1935.[9] The EPR
article highlighted the bizarre nature of
quantum superpositions, in which a
quantum system such as an atom or
photon can exist as a combination of
multiple states corresponding to different
possible outcomes. The prevailing theory,
called the Copenhagen interpretation, said
that a quantum system remained in this
superposition until it interacted with, or
was observed by, the external world, at
which time the superposition collapses
into one or another of the possible definite
states. The EPR experiment showed that a
system with multiple particles separated
by large distances could be in such a
superposition. Schrödinger and Einstein
exchanged letters about Einstein's EPR
article, in the course of which Einstein
pointed out that the state of an unstable
keg of gunpowder will, after a while,
contain a superposition of both exploded
and unexploded states.
To further illustrate, Schrödinger described
how one could, in principle, create a
superposition in a large-scale system by
making it dependent on a quantum
particle that was in a superposition. He
proposed a scenario with a cat in a locked
steel chamber, wherein the cat's life or
death depended on the state of a
radioactive atom, whether it had decayed
and emitted radiation or not. According to
Schrödinger, the Copenhagen
interpretation implies that the cat remains
both alive and dead until the state has
been observed. Schrödinger did not wish
to promote the idea of dead-and-alive cats
as a serious possibility; on the contrary, he
intended the example to illustrate the
absurdity of the existing view of quantum
mechanics.[1] However, since
Schrödinger's time, other interpretations of
the mathematics of quantum mechanics
have been advanced by physicists, some
of which regard the "alive and dead" cat
superposition as quite real.[8][5] Intended
as a critique of the Copenhagen
interpretation (the prevailing orthodoxy in
1935), the Schrödinger's cat thought
experiment remains a defining touchstone
for modern interpretations of quantum
mechanics. Physicists often use the way
each interpretation deals with
Schrödinger's cat as a way of illustrating
and comparing the particular features,
strengths, and weaknesses of each
interpretation.

Thought experiment
Schrödinger wrote:[1][10]

One can even set up quite

ridiculous cases. A cat is penned
up in a steel chamber, along with
the following device (which must
be secured against direct
interference by the cat): in a
Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit
of radioactive substance, so
small, that perhaps in the course
of the hour one of the atoms
decays, but also, with equal
probability, perhaps none; if it
happens, the counter tube
discharges and through a relay
releases a hammer that shatters
a small flask of hydrocyanic acid.
If one has left this entire system
to itself for an hour, one would
say that the cat still lives if
meanwhile no atom has decayed.
The first atomic decay would
have poisoned it. The psi-function
of the entire system would
express this by having in it the
living and dead cat (pardon the
expression) mixed or smeared out
in equal parts.

It is typical of these cases that an

indeterminacy originally
restricted to the atomic domain
becomes transformed into
macroscopic indeterminacy,
which can then be resolved by
direct observation. That prevents
us from so naively accepting as
 valid a "blurred model" for
representing reality. In itself, it
would not embody anything
unclear or contradictory. There is
a difference between a shaky or
out-of-focus photograph and a
snapshot of clouds and fog banks.

Schrödinger's famous thought experiment

poses the question, "when does a quantum
system stop existing as a superposition of
states and become one or the other?"
(More technically, when does the actual
quantum state stop being a linear
combination of states, each of which
resembles different classical states, and
instead begin to have a unique classical
description?) If the cat survives, it
remembers only being alive. But
explanations of the EPR experiments that
are consistent with standard microscopic
quantum mechanics require that
macroscopic objects, such as cats and
notebooks, do not always have unique
classical descriptions. The thought
experiment illustrates this apparent
paradox. Our intuition says that no
observer can be in a mixture of states—yet
the cat, it seems from the thought
experiment, can be such a mixture. Is the
cat required to be an observer, or does its
existence in a single well-defined classical
state require another external observer?
Each alternative seemed absurd to
Einstein, who was impressed by the ability
of the thought experiment to highlight
these issues. In a letter to Schrödinger
dated 1950, he wrote:

You are the only contemporary

physicist, besides Laue, who sees
that one cannot get around the
assumption of reality, if only one
is honest. Most of them simply do
not see what sort of risky game
they are playing with reality—
reality as something independent
of what is experimentally
established. Their interpretation
is, however, refuted most
elegantly by your system of
radioactive atom + amplifier +
charge of gun powder + cat in a
box, in which the psi-function of
the system contains both the cat
alive and blown to bits. Nobody
really doubts that the presence or
absence of the cat is something
 independent of the act of
observation.[11]

Note that the charge of gunpowder is not

mentioned in Schrödinger's setup, which
uses a Geiger counter as an amplifier and
hydrocyanic poison instead of gunpowder.
The gunpowder had been mentioned in
Einstein's original suggestion to
Schrödinger 15 years before, and Einstein
carried it forward to the present
discussion.

Interpretations of the
experiment
Since Schrödinger's time, other
interpretations of quantum mechanics
have been proposed that give different
answers to the questions posed by
Schrödinger's cat of how long
superpositions last and when (or whether)
they collapse.

Copenhagen interpretation

A commonly held interpretation of

quantum mechanics is the Copenhagen
interpretation.[12] In the Copenhagen
interpretation, a system stops being a
superposition of states and becomes
either one or the other when an
observation takes place. This thought
experiment makes apparent the fact that
the nature of measurement, or
observation, is not well-defined in this
interpretation. The experiment can be
interpreted to mean that while the box is
closed, the system simultaneously exists
in a superposition of the states "decayed
nucleus/dead cat" and "undecayed
nucleus/living cat", and that only when the
box is opened and an observation
performed does the wave function
collapse into one of the two states.

However, one of the main scientists

associated with the Copenhagen
interpretation, Niels Bohr, never had in
mind the observer-induced collapse of the
wave function, so that Schrödinger's cat
did not pose any riddle to him. The cat
would be either dead or alive long before
the box is opened by a conscious
observer.[13] Analysis of an actual
experiment found that measurement alone
(for example by a Geiger counter) is
sufficient to collapse a quantum wave
function before there is any conscious
observation of the measurement,[14]
although the validity of their design is
disputed.[15] The view that the
"observation" is taken when a particle from
the nucleus hits the detector can be
developed into objective collapse theories.
The thought experiment requires an
"unconscious observation" by the detector
in order for waveform collapse to occur. In
contrast, the many worlds approach
denies that collapse ever occurs.

Many-worlds interpretation and

consistent histories

The quantum-mechanical "Schrödinger's cat" paradox

according to the many-worlds interpretation. In this
interpretation every event is a branch point The cat is
interpretation, every event is a branch point. The cat is
both alive and dead—regardless of whether the box is
opened—but the "alive" and "dead" cats are in different
branches of the universe that are equally real but
cannot interact with each other.

In 1957, Hugh Everett formulated the

many-worlds interpretation of quantum
mechanics, which does not single out
observation as a special process. In the
many-worlds interpretation, both alive and
dead states of the cat persist after the box
is opened, but are decoherent from each
other. In other words, when the box is
opened, the observer and the possibly-
dead cat split into an observer looking at a
box with a dead cat, and an observer
looking at a box with a live cat. But since
the dead and alive states are decoherent,
there is no effective communication or
interaction between them.

When opening the box, the observer

becomes entangled with the cat, so
"observer states" corresponding to the
cat's being alive and dead are formed;
each observer state is entangled or linked
with the cat so that the "observation of the
cat's state" and the "cat's state"
correspond with each other. Quantum
decoherence ensures that the different
outcomes have no interaction with each
other. The same mechanism of quantum
decoherence is also important for the
interpretation in terms of consistent
histories. Only the "dead cat" or the "alive
cat" can be a part of a consistent history in
this interpretation.

Roger Penrose criticises this:

I wish to make it clear that, as it

stands, this is far from a
resolution of the cat paradox. For
there is nothing in the formalism
of quantum mechanics that
demands that a state of
consciousness cannot involve the
 simultaneous perception of a live
and a dead cat.[16]

However, the mainstream view (without

necessarily endorsing many-worlds) is that
decoherence is the mechanism that
forbids such simultaneous
perception.[17][18]

A variant of the Schrödinger's cat

experiment, known as the quantum suicide
machine, has been proposed by
cosmologist Max Tegmark. It examines
the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the
point of view of the cat, and argues that by
using this approach, one may be able to
distinguish between the Copenhagen
interpretation and many-worlds.

Ensemble interpretation

The ensemble interpretation states that

superpositions are nothing but
subensembles of a larger statistical
ensemble. The state vector would not
apply to individual cat experiments, but
only to the statistics of many similarly
prepared cat experiments. Proponents of
this interpretation state that this makes
the Schrödinger's cat paradox a trivial
matter, or a non-issue.
This interpretation serves to discard the
idea that a single physical system in
quantum mechanics has a mathematical
description that corresponds to it in any
way.

Relational interpretation

The relational interpretation makes no

fundamental distinction between the
human experimenter, the cat, or the
apparatus, or between animate and
inanimate systems; all are quantum
systems governed by the same rules of
wavefunction evolution, and all may be
considered "observers". But the relational
interpretation allows that different
observers can give different accounts of
the same series of events, depending on
the information they have about the
system.[19] The cat can be considered an
observer of the apparatus; meanwhile, the
experimenter can be considered another
observer of the system in the box (the cat
plus the apparatus). Before the box is
opened, the cat, by nature of its being alive
or dead, has information about the state of
the apparatus (the atom has either
decayed or not decayed); but the
experimenter does not have information
about the state of the box contents. In this
way, the two observers simultaneously
have different accounts of the situation: To
the cat, the wavefunction of the apparatus
has appeared to "collapse"; to the
experimenter, the contents of the box
appear to be in superposition. Not until the
box is opened, and both observers have
the same information about what
happened, do both system states appear
to "collapse" into the same definite result,
a cat that is either alive or dead.

Transactional interpretation

In the transactional interpretation the

apparatus emits an advanced wave
backward in time, which combined with
the wave that the source emits forward in
time, forms a standing wave. The waves
are seen as physically real, and the
apparatus is considered an "observer". In
the transactional interpretation, the
collapse of the wavefunction is
"atemporal" and occurs along the whole
transaction between the source and the
apparatus. The cat is never in
superposition. Rather the cat is only in one
state at any particular time, regardless of
when the human experimenter looks in the
box. The transactional interpretation
resolves this quantum paradox.

Zeno effects
The Zeno effect is known to cause delays
to any changes from the initial state.

On the other hand, the anti-Zeno effect

accelerates the changes. For example, if
you peek a look into the cat box frequently
you may either cause delays to the fateful
choice or, conversely, accelerate it. Both
the Zeno effect and the anti-Zeno effect
are real and known to happen to real
atoms. The quantum system being
measured must be strongly coupled to the
surrounding environment (in this case to
the apparatus, the experiment room ... etc)
in order to obtain more accurate
information. But while there are no
information passed to the outside world it
is considered to be a quasi-measurement,
but as soon as the information about the
cat's well-being is passed on to the outside
world (by peeking into the box) quasi-
measurement turns into measurement.
Quasimeasurements, like measurements,
cause the Zeno effects.[20] Zeno effects
teach us that even without peeking into
the box, the death of the cat would have
been delayed or accelerated anyway due
to its environment.

Objective collapse theories

According to objective collapse theories,
superpositions are destroyed
spontaneously (irrespective of external
observation) when some objective
physical threshold (of time, mass,
temperature, irreversibility, etc.) is
reached. Thus, the cat would be expected
to have settled into a definite state long
before the box is opened. This could
loosely be phrased as "the cat observes
itself", or "the environment observes the
cat".

Objective collapse theories require a

modification of standard quantum
mechanics to allow superpositions to be
destroyed by the process of time
evolution.

Resolution based on standard

quantum theory and
experiments

Schrodinger died before the investigations

of the nonlocal properties of entangled
systems initiated by John Bell's work in
1964. [21] [22] This paragraph revisits the
Schrodinger's cat issue in light of current
knowledge about nonlocality. Bell's work
led to experiments with entangled photon
pairs that demonstrate the nonlocal nature
of entanglement.[23] [24] [25] Experimenters
were able to vary the quantum "phases" of
both entangled subsystems (i.e. both
photons), making it possible for the first
time to understand precisely what is
superposed when quantum systems are
entangled.[26] [27] [28] The interference
effects observed upon varying the
photons' phases revealed that the
entangled state is not a superposition of
different states of the individual photons,
but rather a superposition of the possible
correlations between the states of the
photons. The entangled state arising from
a measurement is simply a special case of
this nonlocal entangled state, namely the
case in which both subsystems' phases
are set to zero so that outcomes are 100%
positively correlated. Thus the state of
Schrodinger's cat is simply a superposition
of two correlations: A live cat is perfectly
correlated with an undecayed nucleus, and
a dead cat is perfectly correlated with a
decayed nucleus.[29] That is, in every
experimental trial of the cat experiment,
we will find either a live cat and an
undecayed nucleus or a dead cat and a
decayed nucleus. This is what we want,
and is not paradoxical. Quantum physics
does not predict a superposed dead-and-
alive cat, and the supposed paradox
vanishes.
Applications and tests

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Schrödinger's cat quantum superposition of states and
effect of the environment through decoherence

The experiment as described is a purely

theoretical one, and the machine proposed
is not known to have been constructed.
However, successful experiments
involving similar principles, e.g.
superpositions of relatively large (by the
standards of quantum physics) objects
have been performed.[30] These
experiments do not show that a cat-sized
object can be superposed, but the known
upper limit on "cat states" has been
pushed upwards by them. In many cases
the state is short-lived, even when cooled
to near absolute zero.

A "cat state" has been achieved with

photons.[31]
A beryllium ion has been trapped in a
superposed state.[32]
An experiment involving a
superconducting quantum interference
device ("SQUID") has been linked to the
theme of the thought experiment: "The
superposition state does not
correspond to a billion electrons flowing
one way and a billion others flowing the
other way. Superconducting electrons
move en masse. All the
superconducting electrons in the SQUID
flow both ways around the loop at once
when they are in the Schrödinger's cat
state."[33]
A piezoelectric "tuning fork" has been
constructed, which can be placed into a
superposition of vibrating and non
vibrating states. The resonator
comprises about 10 trillion atoms.[34]
 An experiment involving a flu virus has
been proposed.[35]
An experiment involving a bacterium
and an electromechanical oscillator has
been proposed.[36]

In quantum computing the phrase "cat

state" often refers to the special
entanglement of qubits wherein the qubits
are in an equal superposition of all being 0
and all being 1; e.g.,
Extensions
Wigner's friend is a variant on the
experiment with two human observers: the
first makes an observation on whether a
flash of light is seen and then
communicates his observation to a
second observer. The issue here is, does
the wave function "collapse" when the first
observer looks at the experiment, or only
when the second observer is informed of
the first observer's observations?

In another extension, prominent physicists

have gone so far as to suggest that
astronomers observing dark energy in the
universe in 1998 may have "reduced its life
expectancy" through a pseudo-
Schrödinger's cat scenario, although this is
a controversial viewpoint.[37][38]

See also
Basis function
Complementarity (physics)
Consensus reality
Double-slit experiment
Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester
Half-life
Heisenberg cut
Leggett–Garg inequality
Maxwell's Demon
 Measurement problem
Micro black hole
Modal realism
Observer (quantum physics)
Observer effect (physics)
Schroedinbug
Schrödinger equation
Schrödinger's cat in popular culture

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