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Watching the wavefunction collapse

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The continuous random path of a superconducting system's quantum state has been tracked as the state changes during measurement. The results open the possibility of steering quantum systems into a desired state. See Letter p.211

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  1. Andrew N. Jordan is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA, and at the Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University, Orange, California 92866, USA.,

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