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When we want to show quantum behavior (like tunneling or double slit) of a large object like a buckyball molecule, what do we need to watch out for in an experiment?
Is it the following?
a, that all constituents of the object (the single atoms of the buckyball) are described by one coherent state, i.e. by one pure wavefunction (how do we achieve it??)
b, slowing it down, since Broglie wavelength, which relates the momentum of the object with wave behaviour of the object
c, isolating the object and cooling the temperature, so reducing enviromental decoherence
Is that partly true?
Additional question:
If we shut down entanglement with the environment, why is the object not automatically in a pure state? Why would the object with all its constituents not be described by one coherent wave function then?
thanks
Is it the following?
a, that all constituents of the object (the single atoms of the buckyball) are described by one coherent state, i.e. by one pure wavefunction (how do we achieve it??)
b, slowing it down, since Broglie wavelength, which relates the momentum of the object with wave behaviour of the object
c, isolating the object and cooling the temperature, so reducing enviromental decoherence
Is that partly true?
Additional question:
If we shut down entanglement with the environment, why is the object not automatically in a pure state? Why would the object with all its constituents not be described by one coherent wave function then?
thanks