{"id":18928,"date":"2015-10-30T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/physicists-mimic-quantum-entanglement-with-laser-pointer-to-double-data-speeds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:22","slug":"physicists-mimic-quantum-entanglement-with-laser-pointer-to-double-data-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/physicists-mimic-quantum-entanglement-with-laser-pointer-to-double-data-speeds","title":{"rendered":"Physicists mimic quantum entanglement with laser pointer to double data speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-mimic-quantum-entanglement-with-laser-pointer-to-double-data-speeds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a classic eureka moment, a team of physicists led by The City College of New York and including Herriot-Watt University and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entanglement with the potential of doubling the data speed of laser communication.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum entanglement is a phrase more likely to be heard on popular sci-fi television shows such as \u201cFringe\u201d and \u201cDoctor Who.\u201d Described by Albert Einstein as \u201cspooky action at a distance,\u201d when two quantum things are entangled, if one is \u2018touched\u2019 the other will \u2018feel it,\u2019 even if separated by a great distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the heart of quantum entanglement is \u2018nonseparability\u2019 \u2014 two entangled things are described by an unfactorizable equation,\u201d said City College PhD student Giovanni Milione. \u201cInterestingly, a conventional <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+beam\/\" rel=\"tag\">laser beam<\/a> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\">laser<\/a> pointer)\u2019s shape and polarization can also be nonseparable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-10-physicists-mimic-quantum-entanglement-laser.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a classic eureka moment, a team of physicists led by The City College of New York and including Herriot-Watt University and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entanglement with the potential of doubling the data speed of laser communication. Quantum entanglement is a phrase more likely to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69275,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18928\/revisions\/69275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}