Quantum entanglement

 Quantum entanglement is the physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance. The topic of quantum entanglement is at the heart of the disparity between classical and quantum physics: entanglement is a primary feature of quantum mechanics not present in classical mechanics. Particles which are at billions and billions of kilometers away can be entangled. Particles need not be originated from same source to get entangled.

Many applications rest upon how quantum mechanics allow two or more particles to exist in a shared state, regardless of how far apart they are. This is called entanglement, and has been one of the most debated elements of quantum mechanics ever since the theory was formulated.

Interesting things happen if the particles in an entangled pair travel in opposite directions and one of them then meets a third particle in such a manner that they become entangled. They then enter a new shared state. The third particle loses its identity, but its original properties have now been transferred to the solo particle from the original pair. This way of transferring an unknown quantum state from one particle to another is called quantum teleportation. This type of experiment was first conducted in 1997 by Anton Zeilinger and his colleagues. Remarkably, quantum teleportation is the only way to transfer quantum information from one system to another without losing any part of it.

Quantum entanglement has been demonstrated experimentally with photonsneutrinoselectronsmolecules as large as buckyballs, and even small diamonds. The utilization of entanglement in communicationcomputation and quantum radar is a very active area of research and development.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain AspectJohn F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science". Their results will contribute to new technology involving quantum information.

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2022/10/popular-physicsprize2022.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement

https://www.space.com/31933-quantum-entanglement-action-at-a-distance.html

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/summary/

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