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Chad Orzel in his Blog has as story about “Multiaxis Inertial Sensing with Long-Time Point Source Atom Interferometry”. This is about interferometry of atoms in a very tall column. One of the interesting parts of the article are in the last paragraph " what you’re seeing here is several million atoms, each in two positions at the same time, separated by a centimeter and a half".

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Missed this post Bill SAGG playing silly indexing again

Quantum superposition VS Quantum entanglement

Wikipedia will say

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If the quantum state of a pair of particles is in a definite superposition, and that superposition cannot be factored out into the product of two states (one for each particle), then that pair is entangled.


However in light of more recent macro entanglements it probably should have the word "particle" replaced by object or thing.

So entanglement requires a system be capable of superposition but superposition can and does exist without entanglement.

So they don't call it entanglement because it isn't.

I did try to get this across once before by asking you what physical properties can be entangled but you never took up the challenge.

Last edited by Orac; 09/04/13 06:53 PM.

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