Oxford physicists using bizarre principle of "entanglement" to cause a change in a diamond they do not touch.
Dec 1, 2011
By Joel N. Shurkin, ISNS Contributor
Inside Science News Service
The vibrational states of two spatially separated, millimeter-sized diamonds are entangled at room temperature by scattering a pair of strong pump pulses (green). The generated motional entanglement is verified by observing nonclassical correlations in the inelastically scattered light.
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| Credit: Dr. Lee and colleagues Image Copyright Science AAAS |
(ISNS) -- Researchers working at the Clarendon Laboratory at the University of Oxford in England have managed to get one small diamond to communicate with another small diamond utilizing "quantum entanglement," one of the more mind-blowing features of quantum physics.
Entanglement has been proven before but what makes the Oxford experiment unique is that concept was demonstrated with substantial solid objects at room temperature.
Inside Science:
In the Quantum World, Diamonds Can Communicate With Each Other
Dave Jarvis' primer on Quantum Entanglement.
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