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NATURE
Volume 413, Issue 6854, Pages 400-403Publisher
MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LTD
DOI: 10.1038/35096524
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Entanglement is considered to be one of the most profound features of quantum mechanics(1,2). An entangled state of a system consisting of two subsystems cannot be described as a product of the quantum states of the two subsystems(3-6). In this sense, the entangled system is considered inseparable and nonlocal. It is generally believed that entanglement is usually manifest in systems consisting of a small number of microscopic particles. Here we demonstrate experimentally the entanglement of two macroscopic objects, each consisting of a caesium gas sample containing about 10(12) atoms. Entanglement is generated via interaction of the samples with a pulse of light, which performs a non-local Bell measurement on the collective spins of the samples(7). The entangled spin-state can be maintained for 0.5 milliseconds. Besides being of fundamental interest, we expect the robust and long-lived entanglement of material objects demonstrated here to be useful in quantum information processing, including teleportation(8-10) of quantum states of matter and quantum memory.
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