Sunday, November 21, 2010

A Neighborhood of Infinity: Beating the odds with entangled qubits

A Neighborhood of Infinity: Beating the odds with entangled qubits: "Quantum mechanics allows the possibility of 'spooky action at a distance', correlations between widely separated but simultaneous random events that can't be explained by probability theory. These events look like they secretly communicate with each other, but we also know that quantum mechanics prevents us sending messages faster than the speed of light. Nonetheless, even though we can't exploit non-locality to send messages faster than the speed of light, two cooperating parties can exploit non-locality to perform tasks better than would be possible without non-locality. The CHSH game is one such example."

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