{"id":200656,"date":"2024-12-02T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/spooky-action-at-a-very-short-distance-scientists-map-out-quantum-entanglement-in-protons"},"modified":"2024-12-02T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T05:22:43","slug":"spooky-action-at-a-very-short-distance-scientists-map-out-quantum-entanglement-in-protons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/spooky-action-at-a-very-short-distance-scientists-map-out-quantum-entanglement-in-protons","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spooky action\u2019 at a very short distance: Scientists map out quantum entanglement in protons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spooky-action-at-a-very-short-distance-scientists-map-out-quantum-entanglement-in-protons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their approach uses quantum information science to map out how particle tracks streaming from electron-proton collisions are influenced by quantum entanglement inside the proton.<\/p>\n<p>The results reveal that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quarks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quarks<\/a> and gluons, the fundamental building blocks that make up a proton\u2019s structure, are subject to so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+entanglement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum entanglement<\/a>. This quirky phenomenon, famously described by Albert Einstein as \u201cspooky action at a distance,\u201d holds that particles can know one another\u2019s state\u2014for example, their spin direction\u2014even when they are separated by a great distance.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, entanglement occurs over incredibly short distances\u2014less than one quadrillionth of a meter inside individual <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/protons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protons <\/a>\u2014and the sharing of information extends over the entire group of quarks and gluons in that proton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have a new way to use data from high-energy particle smashups to peer inside protons. Their approach uses quantum information science to map out how particle tracks streaming from electron-proton collisions are influenced by quantum entanglement inside the proton. The results reveal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200656","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}