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Scientists discover new type of quantum entanglement

By T.K. Randall
January 6, 2023

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) If there's one area of quantum physics that is likely to make your brain melt it's quantum entanglement - a phenomenon once described by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance".

For reasons that are not entirely clear, two entangled particles can remain linked and influence one another instantaneously even if there are billions of light-years of distance between them.

This effect has been demonstrated numerous times in the lab, so it is very much the real deal.Up until now, quantum entanglement experiments have always involved particles from the same group and of the same charge, but now scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven in New York have revealed that they have managed to take things one step further.

In an impressive breakthrough, they have been able to demonstrate quantum entanglement using two particles with different charges - opening the door to a whole new world of quantum experimentation.

"There's never been any measurement in the past of interference between distinguishable particles," study co-author Daniel Brandenburg told Motherboard.

"That's the discovery; the application is that we get to use it to do some nuclear physics."

Source: Vice.com

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