Modern Physics Writing Project: Entanglement’s Benefit Survives an Entanglement-Breaking Channel

A recent study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by a team of researchers has shown experimentally for the first time that a well-known property of quantum mechanics known as quantum entanglement can be utilized for practical communications technology even in environments where this quantum property would normally not function. The researchers further discovered that this property can be used to attain “eavesdropping-immune ” communication. Quantum entanglement is a hot topic in the ever-growing field of quantum information and computing, and this study helps to confirm the practical viability of this process in future applications. The study also demonstrates that quantum entanglement can be used for the purposes of establishing highly secure two way communications. So what is this so-called property of quantum entanglement? Quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that accounts for the workings of atomic and sub-atomic particles, allows for some very interesting physical processes that we could never imagine for objects of a macroscopic scale, that is, everyday objects that we can see and touch. In quantum mechanics, a particle is described by a “quantum state”. This state gives us statistical information about th