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Larissa G. Capella

'Really, really weird': Physicists entangle two moving atoms for the first time, validating 'spooky' quantum theory

Two red nuclei are surrounded by blue glowing balls and connected together by yellow and purple lines, all against a purple background.

For the first time, scientists have observed quantum entanglement in the way atoms physically move — bringing a phenomenon once described by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance" into even sharper reality.

In the new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers demonstrated that pairs of ultracold helium atoms can be quantum mechanically linked through their momentum — a measure of how fast and in which direction a particle moves, factoring in its mass.

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