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Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature : ScienceAlert (opens in a new tab)
sciencealert.com · 2026-10-01
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Physicists Quantum-Entangled a Levitating Speck of Glass With Light at Room Temperature : ScienceAlert
sciencealert.com · 2026-10-01
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High purity two-dimensional levitated mechanical oscillator
Nature Communications · 2025
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10.1126/science.aeh1375
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedPhysicists say they have made a single microscopic grain of glass levitating in light and linked its properties with light through quantum entanglement.View evidenceHide evidence
As statedsingle microscopic grain of glass; about 100 nanometers across
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe experiment is presented as the first demonstration of persistent entanglement between the motion of a levitated object and light that travels away from it, without cryogenically cooling the apparatus.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe setup used two lasers: a red-detuned beam to cool and stabilize the nanosphere's motion and a blue-detuned beam to generate entanglement with the light.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe article says the researchers reconstructed correlations from the light leaving the cavity and found they crossed the entanglement threshold even after accounting for uncertainties.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedScienceAlert says the entangled correlations persisted in propagating light outside the cavity, which could in principle be used for quantum networking or interaction with other devices.View evidenceHide evidence
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Crossref, PubMed, Europe PMC · 16 candidate papers
High purity two-dimensional levitated mechanical oscillator
Nature Communications · 2025 · Crossref
Inhomogeneity-Induced Casimir Transport of Nanoparticles.
Physical Review Letters · 2018 · PubMed
Feedback control of two-mode output entanglement and steering in cavity optomechanics
Physical Review a · 2016 · Crossref
Flexible control of an ultrastable levitated orbital micro-gyroscope through orbital-translational coupling.
2023 · Europe PMC
Cavity cooling a single charged levitated nanosphere.
Physical Review Letters · 2015 · PubMed, Europe PMC
And 11 more candidates considered.