In a new paper published last week in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have published a method that allows for much more stable quantumentanglement, which may help pave the way for better quantum communication and quantum computing.
The behavior could let communications and storage take advantage of quantumentanglement, where particles can affect each other despite relatively long distances.
"Quantum entanglement is valuable in transmitting particles such as atoms and photons where the most delicate properties are significant and where simple approximation is not enough, " he explains.
The practical application here is that the ability to maintain entanglement for a long period of time is key to building real quantum information networks.