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Letter: Entangled qubits aren't in touch

Published 21 September 2016

From Eric Kvaalen

Entangled trapped-ion qubits cannot communicate faster than the speed of light (13 August, p 14). Entanglement allows correlations between results at distance: this is not the same as communication.

Les Essarts-le-roi, France

Issue no. 3092 published 24 September 2016

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