The organism Ignacio Cirac and Oriol Romero-Isart have in mind is the flu virus.
ECONOMIST: An old thought experiment may soon be realised
In the view of Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart, a virus is just a particularly large molecule, so existing techniques should work on it.
By properly applying this pulse, Dr Cirac believes it will be possible to leave the virus in a superposition of the ground and excited states.
Dr Cirac and Dr Romero-Isart therefore propose putting the virus inside a microscopic cavity and cooling it down to its state of lowest energy (ground state, in physics parlance) using a piece of apparatus known as a laser trap.
应用推荐
模块上移
模块下移
不移动