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We give an elementary introduction to the notion of quantum entanglement between distinguishable parties and review a recent proposal about solid state quantum computation with spin-qubits in quantum dots. The indistinguishable character of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

This paper discusses experiments with single-particle systems, some of whose states appear to be entangled. It shows that the interpretation of the experiments in terms of entanglement is ill-defined. Three forms of ambiguity are discussed.…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Robert Shaw

Uncertainty relations are fundamental to quantum mechanics, encoding limits on the simultaneous measurement of conjugate observables. Violations of joint uncertainty bounds can certify entanglement -- a resource critical for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Felipe Reibnitz Willemann , Mauro Antezza , Johannes Feist

We propose a new concept of entanglement for quantum systems: entanglement in theory space. This is defined by decomposing a theory into two by an un-gauging procedure. We provide two examples where this newly-introduced entanglement is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-12 Masahito Yamazaki

I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Shi

We review some applications of entanglement to improve quantum measurements and communication, with the main focus on the optical implementation of quantum information processing. The evolution of continuos variable entangled states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. A. Paris , G. M. D'Ariano , P. Lo Presti , P. Perinotti

We describe the physical relativity of light and matter quantum subsystems, their correlations, and energy exchanges. We examine the most commonly adopted definitions of atoms and photons, noting the significant difference in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Adam Stokes , Hannah Riley , Ahsan Nazir

Since its discovery in the last century, quantum entanglement has challenged some of our most cherished classical views, such as locality and reality. Today, the second quantum revolution is in full swing and promises to revolutionize areas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Manuel Erhard , Mario Krenn , Anton Zeilinger

Tremendous progress has been realized in quantum optics for engineering and detecting the quantum properties of light. Today, photon pairs are routinely created in entangled states. Entanglement is revealed using single-photon detectors in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Valentina Caprara Vivoli , Pavel Sekatski , Nicolas Sangouard

For any experiment with two entangled photons, some joint measurement outcomes can have zero probability for a precise choice of basis. These perfect anti-correlations would seem to be a purely quantum phenomenon. It is therefore surprising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Ken Wharton , Emily Adlam

The generation of quantum entangled states of many particles is a central goal of quantum information science. Characterizing such states is a complex task that demands exponentially large resources as particles are being added. Previously,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 E. Megidish , A. Halevy , Y. Pilnyak , A. Slapa , H. S. Eisenberg

The state of a two-particle system is called entangled when its quantum mechanical wave function cannot be factorized in two single-particle wave functions. Entanglement leads to the strongest counter-intuitive feature of quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Altewischer , M. P. van Exter , J. P. Woerdman

Quantum entanglement is one of the most prominent features of quantum mechanics and forms the basis of quantum information technologies. Here we present a novel method for the creation of quantum entanglement in multipartite and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Mario Krenn , Armin Hochrainer , Mayukh Lahiri , Anton Zeilinger

We study the dynamics of quantum matter interacting with time-energy entangled photons. We consider the stimulation of a collective mode of a two-dimensional material by means of one of the two partners of a time-energy entangled pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Giovanni Citeroni , Marco Polini , Michael Dapolito , D. N. Basov , Giacomo Mazza

Entanglement is a unique nature of quantum theory and has tremendous potential for application. Nevertheless, the complexity of quantum entanglement grows exponentially with an increase in the number of entangled particles. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. M. Zangi , Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

Entanglement, a key resource of emerging quantum technologies, describes correlations between particles that defy classical physics. It has been studied extensively on various platforms, but has remained elusive in electron microscopy.…

Quantum information science has leaped forward with the exploration of high-dimensional quantum systems, offering greater potential than traditional qubits in quantum communication and quantum computing. To advance the field of…

An antisymmetric tensor, the photon tensor, is defined for the description of the photon as a massless relativistic particle. The photon can be visualized as an essentially two dimensional rotating object. The quantum mechanical description…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. de la Torre

We characterize entanglement subject to its definition over real and complex, composite quantum systems. In particular, a method is established to assess quantum correlations with respect to a selected number system, illuminating the deeply…

We formulate a theory for entangled imaging, which includes also the case of a large number of photons in the two entangled beams. We show that the results for imaging and for the wave-particle duality features, which have been demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Gatti , E. Brambilla , L. A. Lugiato