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Researchers demonstrate that quantum entanglement and topology are inextricably linked (phys.org)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10482534

The team hopes that this might become a powerful tool that paves the way for new quantum communication protocols that use topology as an alphabet for quantum information processing across entanglement-based channels.

The findings reported in the article are crucial because researchers have grappled for decades with developing techniques to preserve entangled states. The fact that topology remains intact even as entanglement decays suggests a potentially new encoding mechanism that utilizes entanglement, even in scenarios with minimal entanglement where traditional encoding protocols would fail.

Edit: Here is the quoted article link.

And here's is the published paper.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Actually, I kind of get what they are saying. In order to entangle two things, the two things need to already be aware of the space between themselves in order to entangle.

This is is kind of stupid though, because it could always be the path of least resistance, UNLESS you can observe one end having knowledge of the other and making an informed choice to somehow join it's entanglement.