By juggling with a trapped atom, physicists have been able to probe the mysterious quantum-mechanical process that links the quantum to the everyday, classical world.
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Ball, P. How decoherence killed Schrödinger's cat. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000120-10
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