{"id":203292,"date":"2025-01-07T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-find-spooky-quantum-entanglement-on-incredibly-tiny-scales-within-individual-protons"},"modified":"2025-01-07T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T22:04:07","slug":"scientists-find-spooky-quantum-entanglement-on-incredibly-tiny-scales-within-individual-protons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-find-spooky-quantum-entanglement-on-incredibly-tiny-scales-within-individual-protons","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find \u2018spooky\u2019 quantum entanglement on incredibly tiny scales \u2014 within individual protons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The team found that the sharing of information that defines entanglement occurs across whole groups of fundamental particles called quarks<\/a> and gluons<\/a> within a proton.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore we did this work, no one had looked at entanglement inside of a proton in experimental high-energy collision data,\u201d team member and Brookhaven Lab physicist Zhoudunming Tu said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cFor decades, we\u2019ve had a traditional view of the proton as a collection of quarks and gluons<\/a>, and we\u2019ve been focused on understanding so-called single-particle properties, including how quarks and gluons are distributed inside the proton.<\/p>\n

Now, with evidence that quarks and gluons are entangled, this picture has changed. We have a much more complicated, dynamic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The team found that the sharing of information that defines entanglement occurs across whole groups of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons within a proton. \u201cBefore we did this work, no one had looked at entanglement inside of a proton in experimental high-energy collision data,\u201d team member and Brookhaven Lab physicist Zhoudunming Tu said in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203292","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\/203292","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}