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Strictly nonclassical behavior of a mesoscopic system

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arxiv 1606.05392 v4 pith:JKDBA7RX submitted 2016-06-17 quant-ph physics.atom-ph

Strictly nonclassical behavior of a mesoscopic system

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We experimentally demonstrate the strictly nonclassical behavior in a many-atom system using a recently derived criterion [E. Kot et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 233601 (2012)] that explicitly does not make use of quantum mechanics. We thereby show that the magnetic moment distribution measured by McConnell et al. [R. McConnell et al., Nature 519, 439 (2015)] in a system with a total mass of $2.6\times 10^5$ atomic mass units is inconsistent with classical physics. Notably, the strictly nonclassical behavior affects an area in phase space $10^3$ times larger than the Planck quantum $\hbar$.

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