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Focus: Quantum Mechanics Could Improve Radar

Philip Ball

Published Feb 27, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

A proposed device would extend a quantum entanglement scheme previously demonstrated for visible photons into the microwave regime, where it could boost radar performance.

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