Exploring the Quantum/Classical Frontier: Recent Advances in Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena

The field of macroscopic quantum phenomena has been around for more than 20 years--since work by Leggett and collaborators introduced the notion that it was possible to have macroscopic objects with microscopic energy scales, thus opening the possibility of actually realizing a version of Schrödinger's cat in the lab--but there's still no clear consensus about what MQP means. Fourteen chapters by US, European, Russian, and Japanese physicists review recent developments in the field with the...