Released: 26-Jul-2005 1:00 PM EDT
Physicists Entangle Photon and Atom in Atomic Cloud
Georgia Institute of Technology

Physicists have just reached an important milestone in the development of quantum communications networks by entangling a photon and a single atom located in an atomic cloud. This is the first time an entanglement between a photon and a collective excitation of atoms has passed the rigorous test of quantum behavior known as a Bell inequality violation.