This image shows crystals used for storing entangled photons, which behave as though they are part of the same whole.
A paper published in Nature Photonics detailed the first experiments with quantum teleportation in a metropolitan fibre cable network. Read more here: Quantum hotline: information ‘teleported’ across cities
Originally published by Cosmos as Entangled photon traps
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