Entangled Mechanical Oscillators

Understand

Hallmarks of quantum mechanics include superposition and entanglement.

• In the context of large complex systems, these features should lead to situations like Schrodinger's cat, which exists in a superposition of alive and dead states entangled with a radioactive nucleus.
• Such situations are not observed in nature.
• This may simply be due to our inability to sufficiently isolate the system of interest from the surrounding environment -- a technical limitation.