Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

mbone writes "A very interesting paper (PDF) has just hit the streets (or, at least, Physics Review Letters) about the Heisenberg uncertainty relationship as it was originally formulated about measurements. The researchers find that they can exceed the uncertainty limit in measurements (although the uncertainty limit in quantum states is still followed, so the foundations of quantum mechanics still appear to be sound.) This is really an attack on quantum entanglement (the correlations imposed between two related particles), and so may have immediate applications in cracking quantum cryptography systems. It may also be easier to read quantum communications without being detected than people originally thought."

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Insert Breaking Bad Joke Here

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's just get all the Walter White jokes out of the way...

I have the fix

[Anonymous Coward]

I learned about it on the factual science TV show (currently honored on Google.com), Star Trek. They need a Heisenberg compensator.

Here we go again

[cvtan]

"Microsoft issues yet another patch to its quantum communications system to prevent hackers from eavesdropping on encrypted signals. The updates will be issued on Tuesday, but they might not be..."

Re:Magic

[rossdee]

Back in the day we didn't have Quantum Computers, but we did have Quantum hard drives. You were never certain when they were going to fail

Uncertainty

[Nkwe]

So the paper says we are not sure about the uncertainty principle?