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Push-button entanglement

Quantum mechanics allows matter to be prepared in a strangely correlated way called entanglement. In future, large numbers of entangled particles may be put to work in quantum computers and precise quantum measurements.

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Figure 1: Experiments with two particles, whose quantum states have two internal levels (green and red).

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Blatt, R. Push-button entanglement. Nature 404, 231–232 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35005185

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