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Entanglement and nonlocality

Muhammad Sabieh Anwar, Faizan-e-Ilahi, Syed Bilal Hyder, Muhammad Waseem

Published Aug 1, 2024• 7 citations
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Abstract

One aspect of quantum physics that baffled scientists, including Einstein, for a long time, is entanglement and the resulting nonlocality. In the mid-20th century, debates and numerous conferences were held about whether such a phenomenon could exist. It was only through experiments that the existence of this phenomenon was confirmed. In this chapter, we will conduct some experiments to prove that entanglement and the resulting nonlocality are physically valid. These experiments are based on the pioneering work of great experimentalists that enhanced our understanding of the sub-atomic world and led to the Nobel Prize of 2022.

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10.1088/978-0-7503-6315-0ch6

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