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Three Electrons Entangled

Posted by chrisd on from the happy-particles-of-fate dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Science Blog reports on Michigan researchers who have managed to entangle three electrons at once. "The quantum entanglement of three electrons, using an ultrafast optical pulse and a quantum well of a magnetic semiconductor material, has been demonstrated in a laboratory at the University of Michigan, marking another step toward the realization of a practical quantum computer. While several experiments in recent years have succeeded in entangling pairs of particles, few researchers have managed to correlate three or more particles in a predictable fashion.""

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  1. Qubits by Ichijo · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember a Bill Cosby skit about this subject. It went something like this:

    God: "I want you to build a quark."
    Noah: "Right... what's a quark?"
    God: " Make it 300 qubits by 80 qubits by 40 qubits."
    Noah: "Right... what's a qubit?"

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  2. The true Qsort by onallama · · Score: 5, Funny
    permute_array(array);
    if (is_sorted(array))
    return array;
    else
    destroy_universe();
  3. One electron says to the bartender ... by diggitzz · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I'm feeling a bit down today."

    The other two respond, "Wow, that really puts a whole new spin on things."

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