Artist's Impression of Entanglement in Satellite (IMAGE)

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Artist's Impression of Entanglement in Satellite

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The SpooQy-1 CubeSat contains a miniaturized quantum instrument that creates pairs of photons with the quantum property of entanglement. The entanglement is detected in correlations of the photons' polarizations.

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Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore and NASA

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