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UWaterloo: door opens to faster than light communication ….

Post by MargaritaMc » Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:03 am

University of Waterloo:
Experiment opens the door to multi-party quantum communication

Sunday, March 23, 2014

In the world of quantum science, Alice and Bob have been talking to one another for years. Charlie joined the conversation a few years ago, ** but now with spacelike separation, scientists have measured that their communication occurs faster than the speed of light.

For the first time, physicists at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo have demonstrated the distribution of three entangled photons at three different locations (Alice, Bob and Charlie) several hundreds of metres apart, proving quantum nonlocality for more than two entangled photons.

The findings of the experiment, Experimental Three-Particle Quantum Nonlocality under Strict Locality Conditions, are published in Nature Photonics* today.  

Once described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”, this three-photon entanglement leads to interesting possibilities for multi-party quantum communication.

Read more at:

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/experime ... munication
* Experimental three-photon quantum nonlocality under strict locality conditions, C.Erven et al

** http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 50#p222498
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