{"id":308426,"date":"2021-07-26T17:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-is-entanglement-in-quantum-physics-well-explain-in-5-minutes\/"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:47:18","slug":"what-is-entanglement-in-quantum-physics-well-explain-in-5-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-entanglement-in-quantum-physics-well-explain-in-5-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"#What is entanglement in quantum physics? We&#8217;ll explain in 5 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fd8fc9419\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35fd8fc9419\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-entanglement-in-quantum-physics-well-explain-in-5-minutes\/#Conservation_laws\" >Conservation laws<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-entanglement-in-quantum-physics-well-explain-in-5-minutes\/#Quantum_addition\" >Quantum addition<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-is-entanglement-in-quantum-physics-well-explain-in-5-minutes\/#Conservation_laws_and_quantum_mechanics\" >Conservation laws and quantum mechanics<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#What is entanglement in quantum physics? We&#8217;ll explain in 5 minutes<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quantum-journal.org\/papers\/q-2018-08-06-79\/\">Quantum computers<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/613079\/theres-a-new-way-to-break-quantum-cryptography\/\">quantum cryptography<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/arthurherman\/2019\/03\/12\/the-quantum-revolution-is-coming-ready-or-not\/#13f06520265a\">quantum (insert name here)<\/a> are often in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to <em>entanglement<\/em>, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical devices possible.<\/p>\n<p>Einstein called entanglement \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2018\/04\/einstein-s-spooky-action-distance-spotted-objects-almost-big-enough-see\">spooky action at a distance<\/a>,\u201d a name that has stuck and become <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/graph?content=spooky+action+at+a+distance&amp;year_start=1947&amp;year_end=2008\">increasingly popular<\/a>. Beyond just building better <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612844\/what-is-quantum-computing\/\">quantum computers<\/a>, understanding and harnessing entanglement is also useful in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>For example, it can be used to make more accurate measurements of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-detections-of-gravitational-waves-brings-the-number-to-11-so-far-107962\">gravitational waves<\/a>, and to better understand the properties of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-quantum-materials-may-soon-make-star-trek-technology-reality-86378\">exotic materials<\/a>. It also subtly shows up in other places: I have been studying how atoms bumping into each other become entangled, to understand how this affects the accuracy of atomic clocks.<\/p>\n<p>But what <em>is<\/em> entanglement? Is there some way to understand this \u201cspooky\u201d phenomenon? I will try to explain it by bringing together two notions from physics: conservation laws and quantum superpositions.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservation_laws\"><\/span>Conservation laws<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/science\/conservation-law\">Conservation laws<\/a> are some of the deepest and most pervasive concepts in all of physics. The law of conservation of energy states that the total amount of energy in an isolated system remains fixed (although it can be converted from electrical energy to mechanical energy to heat, and so on). This law underlies the workings of all of our machines, whether they are steam engines or electric cars. Conservation laws are a kind of accounting statement: you can exchange bits of energy around, but the total amount has to stay the same.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grc.nasa.gov\/www\/k-12\/airplane\/conmo.html\">Conservation of momentum<\/a> (momentum being mass times velocity) is the reason why, when two ice skaters with different masses push off from each other, the lighter one moves away faster than the heavier. This law also underlies the famous dictum that \u201cevery action has an equal and opposite reaction.\u201d <span id=\"urn:enhancement-fe249da6-f34e-41c9-80de-ff8695fe184e\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-creative-work\" itemid=\"http:\/\/data.thenextweb.com\/tnw\/entity\/conservation_of_angular__momentum\">Conservation of <em>angular<\/em> momentum<\/span> is why \u2014 going back to ice skaters again \u2014 a whirling <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FmnkQ2ytlO8?t=44\">figure skater can spin faster<\/a> by drawing her arms closer to her body.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1361937 js-lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-203x135.jpg 203w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-796x530.jpg 796w\"\/><figcaption><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Feditorial.thenextweb.com%2Fscience%2F2021%2F07%2F26%2Fwhat-is-entanglement-quantum-physics-explain-5-minutes-syndication%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: France\u2019s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron demonstrate the effects of conservation laws during the 2019 ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Belarus.\" data-title=\"Share France\u2019s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron demonstrate the effects of conservation laws during the 2019 ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Belarus. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share France\u2019s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron demonstrate the effects of conservation laws during the 2019 ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Belarus. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"\/><\/a>France\u2019s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron demonstrate the effects of conservation laws during the 2019 ISU European Figure Skating Championships in Belarus.<\/figcaption><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1361937\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-280x187.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-203x135.jpg 203w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/07\/ice-skater-796x530.jpg 796w\"\/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>These conservation laws have been experimentally verified to work across an extraordinary range of scales in the universe, from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.74.104013\">black holes in distant galaxies<\/a> all the way down to the tiniest <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edmcubed.com\">spinning electrons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Quantum_addition\"><\/span>Quantum addition<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Picture yourself on a nice hike through the woods. You come to a fork in the trail, but you find yourself struggling to decide whether to go left or right. The path to the left looks dark and gloomy but is reputed to lead to some nice views, while the one to the right looks sunny but steep. You finally decide to go right, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poem\/road-not-taken\">wistfully wondering about the road not taken<\/a>. In a quantum world, you could have chosen both.<\/p>\n<p>For systems described by quantum mechanics (that is, things that are sufficiently well isolated from heat and external disturbances), the rules are more interesting. Like a spinning top, an electron for example can be in a state where it spins clockwise, or in another state where it spins anticlockwise. Unlike a spinning top though, it can also be in a state that is <em>[clockwise spinning] + [anticlockwise spinning]<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The states of quantum systems can be added together and subtracted from each other<\/em>. Mathematically, the rules for combining quantum states can be described in the same way as the rules for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8QihetGj3pg\">adding and subtracting vectors<\/a>. The word for such a combination of quantum states is a <em>superposition<\/em>. This is really what is behind strange quantum effects that you may have heard about, such as the double-slit experiment, or particle-wave duality.<\/p>\n<p>Say you decide to force an electron in the <em>[clockwise spinning] + [anticlockwise spinning]<\/em> superposition state to yield a definite answer. Then the electron randomly ends up either in the <em>[clockwise spinning]<\/em> state or in the <em>[anticlockwise spinning]<\/em> state. The odds of one outcome versus the other are easy to calculate (with a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu\/III_toc.html\">good physics book<\/a> at hand). The intrinsic randomness of this process may bother you if your worldview requires the universe to behave in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hawking.org.uk\/does-god-play-dice.html\">completely predictable<\/a> way, but \u2026 <em>c\u2019est la<\/em> (experimentally tested) <em>vie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conservation_laws_and_quantum_mechanics\"><\/span>Conservation laws and quantum mechanics<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s put these two ideas together now, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly the law of conservation of energy to a pair of quantum particles.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a pair of quantum particles (say atoms) that start off with a total of 100 units of energy. You and your friend separate the pair, taking one each. You find that yours has 40 units of energy. Using the law of conservation of energy, you deduce that the one your friend has must have 60 units of energy. As soon as you know the energy of your atom, you im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely also know the energy of your friend\u2019s atom. You would know this even if your friend never revealed any information to you. And you would know this even if your friend was off on the other side of the galaxy at the time you measured the energy of your atom. Nothing spooky about it (once you realize this is just correlation, not causation).<\/p>\n<p>But the quantum states of a pair of atoms can be more interesting. The energy of the pair can be partitioned in many possible ways (consistent with energy conservation, of course). The combined state of the pair of atoms can be in a superposition, for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[your atom: 60 units; friend\u2019s atom: 40 units] + [your atom: 70 units; friend\u2019s atom: 30 units].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an <em>entangled state<\/em> of the two atoms. Neither your atom, nor your friend\u2019s, has a definite energy in this superposition. Nevertheless, the properties of the two atoms are correlated because of conservation of energy: their energies always add up to 100 units.<\/p>\n<p>For example, if you measure your atom and find it in a state with 70 units of energy, you can be certain that your friend\u2019s atom has 30 units of energy. You would know this even if your friend never revealed any information to you. And thanks to energy conservation, you would know this even if your friend was off on the other side of the galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing spooky about it.<!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. 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We&#8217;ll explain in 5 minutes&#8221; Quantum computers, quantum cryptography, and quantum (insert name here) are often in the news these days. Articles about them inevitably refer to entanglement, a property of quantum physics that makes all these magical devices possible. 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