{"id":100414,"date":"2020-01-02T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/remote-connections-detangling-entanglement-in-quantum-physics"},"modified":"2020-01-02T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T03:02:57","slug":"remote-connections-detangling-entanglement-in-quantum-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/remote-connections-detangling-entanglement-in-quantum-physics","title":{"rendered":"Remote connections? Detangling entanglement in quantum physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-MNSLsjjdo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quantum-journal.org\/papers\/q-2018-08-06-79\/\">Quantum computers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/613079\/theres-a-new-way-to-break-quantum-cryptography\/\">quantum cryptography<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/arthurherman\/2019\/03\/12\/the-quantum-revolution-is-coming-ready-or-not\/#13f06520265a\">quantum (insert name here)<\/a> are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to <em>entanglement<\/em>, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical devices possible.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein called entanglement \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/04\/einstein-s-spooky-action-distance-spotted-objects-almost-big-enough-see\">spooky action at a distance<\/a>,\u201d a name that has stuck and become <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=spooky+action+at+a+distance&year_start=1947&year_end=2008\">increasingly popular<\/a>. Beyond just building better <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612844\/what-is-quantum-computing\/\">quantum computers<\/a>, understanding and harnessing entanglement is also useful in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it can be used to make more accurate measurements of <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-detections-of-gravitational-waves-brings-the-number-to-11-so-far-107962\">gravitational waves<\/a>, and to better understand the properties of <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-quantum-materials-may-soon-make-star-trek-technology-reality-86378\">exotic materials<\/a>. It also subtly shows up in other places: I have been studying how atoms bumping into each other become entangled, to understand how this affects the accuracy of atomic clocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers, quantum cryptography and quantum (insert name here) are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to entanglement, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical devices possible. Einstein called entanglement \u201cspooky action at a distance,\u201d a name that has stuck and become increasingly popular. Beyond just building [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}