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A team of international scientists working on the ATLAS experiment, including experts from the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide, has taken a major step forward in discovering more about quantum entanglement, one of the key properties underlying quantum physics.

鈥淓ntanglement is one of the properties described by quantum physics, and is one of the properties that scientists and engineers are trying to exploit to create new technologies, such as quantum computing,鈥� said the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide鈥檚 Professor Paul Jackson, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

鈥淭he new development from the ATLAS experiment is that entanglement has been seen in pairs of particles called top quarks, where there are large amounts of energy in a very small space.鈥�

Quantum entanglement is a fascinating feature of quantum physics 鈥� the theory of the very small. If two particles are quantum-entangled, the state of one particle is tied to that of the other, no matter how far apart the particles are.

Professor Jackson is the National Contact Physicist for 最新糖心Vlog on the ATLAS experiment, the largest general-purpose particle detector experiment, at the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Professor Jackson and his colleagues from around the world test聽the fundamental forces of nature and search for new particles and phenomena. They analyse data from the聽ATLAS experiment in their search for a better understanding of how particles behave and how this can be applied.

鈥淭he top quark is the most massive of all fundamental particles, and its unusually large mass聽may be because it 'feels' a new force beyond the four we know exist, or is connected to other new phenomena in some way."Professor Paul Jackson, School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, The 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide

鈥淭he top quark鈥檚 very large mass makes it a good laboratory for studying entanglement - the new ATLAS measurement would not have been possible for the other five types of lighter quark," he explained.

There are six different kinds of quarks with a wide range of masses. Quarks are聽the only聽elementary particles聽to experience all the known forces of nature.

Entanglement enables quantum computers to perform multiple calculations simultaneously, implement various protocols and algorithms that are not possible with classical systems, and crucially to detect and correct errors in a way that is not possible for classical computers.

鈥淏ut entanglement is also fragile. Currently, many quantum physics experiments are done at ultra-cold temperatures, to avoid 'bumping鈥� the system and disturbing it,鈥� said Professor Jackson.

鈥淯p to now, entanglement has been demonstrated in systems where scientists can set up the right conditions to make the measurements. However, this new measurement opens up聽a possibility for entanglement to be studied in the 'hot and noisy' environment created by particle colliders.

鈥淎 deeper understanding of the fundamental physics behind quantum technology is the key driver for impactful applications of quantum phenomena in everyday technologies.鈥�

The international team published their findings in the journal .