Schrodinger's cat experiment

John D. Trimmer translated [1] the original three-part paper series "Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik" (The current situation in quantum mechanics) by E. Schrödinger [2–4], which was written in response to the EPR thought experiment proposed by A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen [5]. That experiment introduced the concept of quantum entanglement, highlighting a paradox that challenges the completeness of quantum mechanical descriptions and appears to conflict with the locality principle of general relativity. While E. Schrödinger's famous cat paradox was introduced as a thought experiment to illustrate the implications of the EPR argument, it presents the idea of quantum superposition without providing a complete framework for its application in quantum computing. In quantum mechanics, the cat is considered to be both dead and alive simultaneously in a superposed quantum state, which differs fundamentally from classical statistical descriptions. A detailed and formal treatment of superposition in the context of quantum computation is provided in the book by Michael A. Nielsen and Isaac L. Chuang [6].


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