In a new feat of quantum-scale manipulation, physicists have joined five photons in a condition of mutually linked properties called entanglement.
Jian-Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and his colleagues achieved this complex state by firing an intense laser beam into a collection of crystals, mirrors, and detectors.
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