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title: "Schrödinger’s cat meets Qiskit: Why do we never see cats that are both dead and alive?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/schr-dinger-s-cat-meets-qiskit-why-do-we-never-see-cats-that-are-both-dead-and-alive--cvfaxfmwb
source_url: https://medium.com/qiskit/schr%C3%B6dingers-cat-meets-qiskit-why-do-we-never-see-cats-that-are-both-dead-and-alive-6e9adf7a09e0?source=rss----85f9df9eaa17---4
type: article
source: "Qiskit"
published: 2023-10-25T14:26:47.596Z
updated: 2023-10-25T14:26:24.692Z
tags: ["quantum-computing"]
reading_time: 8
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Schrödinger’s cat meets Qiskit: Why do we never see cats that are both dead and alive?

**[Qiskit](https://daily.dev/sources/qiskit)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The article explores Schrödinger's cat thought experiment, which demonstrates the concept of superposition in quantum mechanics. It discusses the collapse postulate, different theories in quantum mechanics, and the emergence of classicality through decoherence. The article also touches upon the application of quantum computing in modeling Schrödinger's cat states.

## Full article

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