Macroscopic quantum superpositions in highly excited strongly interacting many-body systems

S. Yu Kun; L. Benet; L. T. Chadderton; W. Greiner; F. Haas

doi:10.1103/PhysRevC.67.011604

Macroscopic quantum superpositions in highly excited strongly interacting many-body systems

S. Yu Kun^*, L. Benet, L. T. Chadderton, W. Greiner, F. Haas

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Abstract

We demonstrate a breakdown in the macroscopic (classical-like) dynamics of wave-packets in complex microscopic and mesoscopic collisions. This breakdown manifests itself in coherent superpositions of the rotating clockwise and anticlockwise wave-packets in the regime of strongly overlapping many-body resonances of the highly-excited intermediate complex. These superpositions involve ∼10⁴ many-body configurations so that their internal interactive complexity dramatically exceeds all of those previously discussed and experimentally realized. The interference fringes persist over a time-interval much longer than the energy relaxation-redistribution time due to the anomalously slow phase randomization (dephasing). Experimental verification of the effect is proposed.

Original language	English
Article number	011604
Pages (from-to)	116041-116044
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics
Volume	67
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.67.011604
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003

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