Quantum Technology: New EU Research Network measures Bell-States

With a 3 million euro endowment, comes a new European research network headed by TU Wien. The goal: a device that can analyze specific entangled quantum states. The goal is ambitious; develop a novel device that can reliably measure special quantum states known as "Bell-States". A total of seven research institutes have joined forces to pursue the goal of an optical "Bell-State Analyzer". The coordinator of the new project at Atominstitut of TU Wien is Prof. Arno Rauschenbeutel, and the European Union is providing a total of 3 million euros of funding. Quantum Entanglement - An astonishing phenomenon plays a central role in practically all modern quantum technology; quantum entanglement, in which individual particles can no longer be viewed as separate from another. When the state of one particle is measured, this inevitably changes the state of the other particle, meaning the pair can only be described as a single entity.