What Temperature is Schrödinger's Cat?

Abstract

Schrödinger’s infamous alive-and-dead cat highlighted how quantum physics scales badly to the everyday world, and many everyday concepts like temperature don’t have clear quantum descriptions. How can a thermometer be at two temperatures at once?

Carolyn Wood

Postdoctoral Scientist

Carolyn Wood is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane, Australia focusing on quantum machine learning and physics at the interface between quantum mechanics and general relativity.