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 photons, neutrinos, electrons, molecules as
large as buckyballs, and even small diamonds. The utilization
of entanglement in communication, computation and quantum radar is
a very active area of research and development.
The
Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded to Alain Aspect, John 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
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