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AuthorNicholas Bornman

Ph.D. student, University of the Witwatersrand. I am a Ph.D. physics student, and my studies focus on various aspects of quantum photonics such as ghost imaging (where we image an object by only measuring light which does not interact with the object), improving the efficiency of entanglement generation in light, as well as using photons to generate random numbers.
Two particles are said to be entangled when one cannot be perfectly described without information about the other being included. Shutterstock/ezphoto

Quantum entanglement: what it is, and why physicists want to harness it

by Nicholas Bornman Dec 10, 2021Dec 10, 2021

But what exactly is quantum entanglement? Two particles in quantum mechanics are said to be entangled when one of the particles cannot be perfectly described without including all of the information about the other one: the particles are “connected” in such a way that

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