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arxiv: 1603.01553 · v3 · pith:DM3RHET3new · submitted 2016-03-04 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.mes-hall

On-chip quantum interference of a superconducting microsphere

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.mes-hall
keywords quantumsuperconductingexperimentmassschemesphereaboveall-magnetic
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We propose and analyze an all-magnetic scheme to perform a Young's double slit experiment with a micron-sized superconducting sphere of mass $\gtrsim {10}^{13}$ amu. We show that its center of mass could be prepared in a spatial quantum superposition state with an extent of the order of half a micrometer. The scheme is based on magnetically levitating the sphere above a superconducting chip and letting it skate through a static magnetic potential landscape where it interacts for short intervals with quantum circuits. In this way, a protocol for fast quantum interferometry using quantum magnetomechanics is passively implemented. Such a table-top earth-based quantum experiment would operate in a parameter regime where gravitational energy scales become relevant. In particular, we show that the faint parameter-free gravitationally-induced decoherence collapse model, proposed by Di\'osi and Penrose, could be unambiguously falsified.

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