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Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.
Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in which an object exists in a haze of possible locations at once.
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Nature 649, 1086-1087 (2026)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00177-9
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