tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53910992192459078372024-02-18T19:44:47.157-08:00Absolute Addictive PHYSICSIts all about physics.This is only for them who are absolutely addicted to the physics..!Jenish Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822208395993231240noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391099219245907837.post-13179051964303430552014-12-05T06:20:00.000-08:002014-12-05T06:20:19.522-08:00Hunt the HIGGS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;">More than two years after physicists discovered the Higgs boson, there’s still a lot they don’t know about the elusive particle. Now, they want your help to make the next discovery about this particle with a new citizen-science project called <a href="http://www.higgshunters.org/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 238, 250); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-shadow: rgb(203, 238, 250) 0px -4px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Higgs Hunters</a>. That’s right, some of the brainiest physicists in the world would like you to pitch in.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The Higgs boson was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world. It may sound strange that even with this enormous, $5-billion machine, and all the scientific power applied to the data it collects, scientists still need people like you to help. But the human mind is still better than the most sophisticated algorithm at some tasks, and scouring the LHC data for more evidence of the Higgs is one of those.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The data is created when the LHC slams together beams of protons careening at near-light-speed. When the particles collide, they produce a flurry of new particles—including, sometimes, a Higgs boson. But the Higgs can only exist for 10<sup style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px; padding: 0px; top: -0.5em;">-22</sup>seconds before splintering off into more particles, making it really tough to detect. Theorists predicted what some of those particles would be and how they would create a telltale trail of evidence that the LHC’s detectors could then measure. It was by identifying these signatures that physicists concluded that indeed, they had created some Higgs bosons. But there is still much to learn about this particle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The theory that describes the fundamental particles and how they interact with one another is called the Standard Model. Although it’s been extremely successful at predicting all kinds of particle interactions, physicists know that it’s incomplete. For example, the theory doesn’t include gravity nor does it explain dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up almost a quarter of the universe. So physicists have tried to come up with better, more complete theories.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">According to some of these new ideas, the Higgs may decay into some other, unknown, exotic particles that don’t carry an electric charge. The problem is that the detectors at the LHC aren’t able to see particles with no charge. However, these theoretical exotic particles may break down into yet more particles that are electrically charged, and can be detected.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Particles that can be detected leave behind tracks that are measured by the detector, and this data can be translated into pictures like the one on the left. The tracks appear as lines emanating from the center of the picture, the site of the collision.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The theoretical particles with no electric charge don’t leave a track. Instead, they move invisibly away from the center of the collision before they break up into particles that can be detected. Consequently, the tracks left by those particles sprout from an off-center point in the picture. This pattern turns out to be difficult for computers to identify.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">People who become Higgs Hunters will look at images and identify and count tracks that emanate from an off-center point. The data will be a mix of real data from the LHC and those produced by computer simulations. By classifying the data by eye, the Hunters will also help the physicists’ computers improve their own algorithms for identifying off-center tracks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">With your help, physicists hope to make some more exciting discoveries. So get hunting.</span></div>
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There was a time when states of matter were simple: Solid, liquid, gas.
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more. Now the list has grown by one more, with the unexpected discovery
of a new state dubbed “dropletons” that bear some resemblance to liquids
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Excitons are formed when a photon strikes a material, particularly a
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If this all sounds a bit hard to relate to, consider that solar cells
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Graduate student Andrew Almand-Hunter was forming biexcitons – two
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millionths of a second exciton density reached a critical threshold. “We
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The team figured that they had created something other than biexcitons,
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The dropletons are small enough to behave quantum mechanically, but the
electrons and holes are not in pairs, as they would be if the dropleton
was just a group of excitons. Instead they form a “quantum fog” of
electrons and holes that flow around each other and even ripple like a
liquid, rather than existing as discrete pairs. However, unlike liquids
we are familiar with, dropletons a finite size, outside which the
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The discovery has been published in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7489/full/nature12994.html"><i>Nature</i></a>.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing is that the dropletons are stable, by
the standards of quantum physics. While they can only survive inside
solid materials, they last around 25 trillionths of a second, which is
actually long enough for scientists to study the way their behavior is
shaped by the environment. At 200nm wide the dropletons are as large as
very small bacteria – a size that can be seen by conventional
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"Classical optics can detect only objects that are larger than their
wavelengths, and we are approaching that limit," Mackillo Kira of
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JILA lab leader Professor Steven Cundiff says, “Nobody is going to
build a quantum droplet widget." However, the work could help in the
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Digital cinema has taken place of historical motion picture film projection. Nearly all the multiplex are using digital cinema projection technique now - a - days. Even a single screen theater like Galaxy (Rajkot ,gujrat [INDIA] ) is using the digital cinema projection.... <br />
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In addition to the equipment already found in a film-based movie
theatre a DCI-compliant digital cinema screen requires a digital
projector and a computer known as a "server".<br />
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Movies are supplied to the theatre as a digital file called a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Package" title="Digital Cinema Package">Digital Cinema Package</a>(DCP).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21"></sup>
For a typical feature film this file will be anywhere between 90 and
300GB of data (roughly two to six times the information of a Blu-ray
disc) and may arrive as a physical delivery on a conventional computer
hard-drive or via <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22"></sup>Currently (Dec 2013) physical deliveries are most common and have
become the industry standard. Trailers arrive on a separate hard-drive
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Regardless of how the DCP arrives it first needs to be copied onto
the internal hard-drives of the server, usually via a USB port, a
process known as "ingesting". DCPs can be, and in the case of feature
films almost always are, encrypted. The necessary decryption keys are
supplied separately, usually as email attachments and then "ingested"
via USB. Keys are time limited and will expire after the end of the
period for which the title has been booked. They are also locked to the
hardware (server and projector) that is to screen the film, so if the
theatre wishes to move the title to another screen or extend the run a
new key must be obtained from the distributor.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema#cite_note-23"></a></sup><br />
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The playback of the content is controlled by the server using a
"playlist". As the name implies this is a list of all the content that
is to be played as part of the performance, the playlist will be created
by a member of the theatre's staff using proprietary software that runs
on the server. In addition to listing the content to be played the
playlist also includes automation cues that allow the playlist to
control the projector, the sound system, auditorium lighting, tab
curtains and screen masking (if present) etc. The playlist can be
started manually, by clicking the "play" button on the server's monitor
screen, or automatically at pre-set times.<br />
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Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a joint venture of the six major studios, published the first version (V1.0) of a system specification for digital cinema in July 2005.<sup>.</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema#cite_note-25"></a></sup>The main declared objectives of the specification was to define a digital cinema system that would <i>"present a theatrical experience that is better than what one could achieve now with a traditional 35mm Answer Print"</i>,
to provide global standards for interoperability such that any
DCI-compliant content could play on any DCI-compliant hardware anywhere
in the world and to provide robust protection for the intellectual
property of the content providers.<br />
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Briefly, the specification calls for picture encoding using the ISO/IEC 15444-1 "JPEG2000" (.j2c) standard and use of the CIE XYZ color space at 12 bits per component encoded with a 2.6 gamma
applied at projection. Two levels of resolution for both content and
projectors are supported: 2K (2048×1080) or 2.2 MP at 24 or 48 frames per second,
and 4K (4096×2160) or 8.85 MP at 24 frames per second. The
specification ensures that 2K content can play on 4K projectors and
vica-versa<br />
For the sound component of the content the specification provides for up to 16 channels of uncompressed audio using the "Broadcast Wave" (.wav) format at 24 bits and 48 kHz or 96 kHz sampling.<br />
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Playback is controlled by an XML-format Composition Playlist, into an MXF-compliant file at a maximum data rate of 250 Mbit/s. Details about encryption, key management,
and logging are all discussed in the specification as are the minimum
specifications for the projectors employed including the color gamut, the contrast ratio
and the brightness of the image. While much of the specification
codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE),
the specification is important in establishing a content owner
framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion
picture content.<br />
In addition to DCI's work, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) released its Digital Cinema System Requirements.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26"></sup><br />
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<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26"> </sup>The document addresses the requirements of digital cinema systems from
the operational needs of the exhibitor, focusing on areas not addressed
by DCI, including access for the visually impaired and hearing impaired,
workflow inside the cinema, and equipment interoperability. In
particular, NATO's document details requirements for the Theatre
Management System (TMS), the governing software for digital cinema
systems within a theatre complex, and provides direction for the
development of security key management systems. As with DCI's document,
NATO's document is also important to the SMPTE standards effort.<br />
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The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
began work on standards for digital cinema in 2000. It was clear by
that point in time that HDTV did not provide a sufficient technological
basis for the foundation of digital cinema playback. (In Europe and
Japan however, there is still a significant presence of HDTV for
theatrical presentations. Agreements within the ISO standards body have
led to these systems being referred to as Electronic Cinema Systems
(E-Cinema).)<br />
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Only four manufacturers make DCI-approved digital cinema projectors; these are Sony, Barco, Christie and NEC. Except for Sony, who use their own SXRD technology, all use the Digital Light Processing technology developed by Texas Instruments
(TI). Although D-Cinema projectors are similar in principle to digital
projectors used in industry, education and domestic 'home cinemas' they
differ in two important respects: firstly they must conform to the
strict performance requirements of the DCI specification, secondly they
must incorporate anti-piracy devices intended to protect the content
copyright.<br />
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For these reasons all projectors intended to be sold to
theaters for screening current release movies <i>must</i> be approved by
the DCI before being put on sale. Because feature films in digital form
are encrypted and the decryption keys are locked to the make, model and
serial number of the projector used, an unapproved projector simply
will not work if an attempt is made to use it to screen current release
feature films from a DCP.<br />
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<u><span class="mw-headline" id="DLP_cinema_projectors">DLP cinema projectors</span></u></h3>
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Three manufacturers have licensed the DLP cinema technology developed by Texas Instruments (TI): Christie Digital Systems, Barco, and NEC.
While NEC is a relative newcomer to Digital Cinema, Christie is the
main player in the U.S. and Barco takes the lead in Europe and Asia.<br />
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from early 2012, when TI's 4K DLP chip went into full production, DLP
projectors have been available in both 2K and 4K versions. Manufacturers
of DLP-based cinema projectors are now offering 4K upgrades to many of
their more recent 2K models.<br />
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Early DLP Cinema projectors, which were deployed primarily in the U.S.,
used limited 1280×1024 resolution or the equivalent of 1.3 MP
(megapixels). Digital Projection Incorporated (DPI) designed and sold a
few DLP Cinema units when TI's 2K technology first debuted but then
abandoned the D-Cinema market while continuing to offer DLP-based
projectors for non-cinema purposes. Although based on the same 2K TI
"light engine" as those of the major players they are so rare as to be
virtually unknown in the industry. They are still widely used for
pre-show advertising but not usually for feature presentations.<br />
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TI's technology is based on the use of Digital Micromirror Devices (DMDs).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28"></sup>These devices are manufactured from silicon using similar technology to
that of computer memory chips. The surface of these devices is covered
by a very large number of microscopic mirrors, one for each pixel, so a
2K device has about 2.2 million mirrors and a 4K device about 8.8
million. Each mirror vibrates several thousand times a second between
two positions, in one light from the projector's lamp is reflected
towards the screen, in the other away from it. The proportion of the
time the mirror is in each position varies according to the required
brightness of each pixel.<br />
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Three DMD devices are used, one for each of the primary colors. Light
from the lamp, usually a Xenon similar to those used in film projectors
with a power between 1 kW and 7 kW, is split by colored filters into
red, green and blue beams which are directed at the appropriate DMD. The
'forward' reflected beam from the three DMMDs is then re-combined and
focused by the lens onto the cinema screen.<br />
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Alone amongst the manufacturers of DCI-compliant cinema projectors
Sony decided to develop its own technology rather than use TI's DLP
technology. SXRD projectors have only ever been manufactured in 4K form
and, until the launch of the 4K DLP chip by TI, Sony SXRD projectors
were the only 4K DCI-compatible projectors on the market. Unlike DLP
projectors, however, SXRD projectors do not present the left and right
eye images of stereoscopic movies sequentially but use half the
available area on the SXRD chip for each eye image. Thus during
stereoscopic presentations the SXRD projector functions as a 2K
projector.<br />
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Realization and demonstration, on October 29, 2001, of the first digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31"></sup> of a feature film by Bernard Pauchon<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34"> </sup>and Philippe Binant.<br />
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Digital cinemas can deliver live broadcasts from performances or events. For example, there are regular live broadcasts to movie theaters of Metropolitan Opera performances. In February 2009, Cinedigm screened the first live multi-region 3D broadcast through a partnership with TNT.
Previous attempts have been isolated to a small number of screens. In
December 2011, the series finale of the BBC dance competition series Strictly Come Dancing was broadcast live in 3D in selected cinemas.<br />
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<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barco_NV" title="Barco NV">Barco</a> — digital projector manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmagic_Design" title="Blackmagic Design">Blackmagic Design</a> — digital cinema camera and distribution equipment manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christie_%28company%29" title="Christie (company)">Christie</a> — digital projector manufacturer</li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluxe_Digital_Studios" title="Deluxe Digital Studios">Deluxe Digital Studios</a> — distributor and theater system integrator</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Laboratories" title="Dolby Laboratories">Dolby Laboratories</a> — theater system integrator</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doremi_Labs" title="Doremi Labs">Doremi Labs</a> — Digital server and theater management system manufacturer</li>
<li>GDC Tech — Digital server and theater management system manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX" title="IMAX">IMAX</a> — digital projector manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinoton" title="Kinoton">Kinoton</a> — manufacturer of digital projection solutions</li>
<li><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak" title="Kodak">Kodak</a> — theater system integrator</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a> — digital projector manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterImage_3D" title="MasterImage 3D">MasterImage 3D</a> — 3D cinema and mobile display technology</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panavision_3D" title="Panavision 3D">Panavision 3D</a> — 3D cinema display technology</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qube_Cinema" title="Qube Cinema">Qube Cinema</a> — Digital Cinema mastering, distribution and server products manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealD_Cinema" title="RealD Cinema">RealD Cinema</a> — 3D cinema display technology</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Company" title="Red Digital Cinema Camera Company">RED Digital Cinema Camera Company</a> — digital cinema camera manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Imaging" title="Silicon Imaging">Silicon Imaging</a> — digital cinema camera manufacturer</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> — manufacturer of 4K digital projector, cinema camera manufacturer and digital cinema servers and theater system integrator</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor" title="Technicolor">Technicolor</a> — distributor and theater system integrator</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a> — developers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Light_Processing" title="Digital Light Processing">DLP Cinema</a> projector technology</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Moviez" title="UFO Moviez">UFO Moviez</a> — world's largest satellite based Digital Cinema</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDC" title="XDC">dcinex</a> — theater system integrator & digital server manufacturer</li>
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Jenish Patelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01822208395993231240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5391099219245907837.post-31299192951257682412013-06-06T23:04:00.001-07:002013-06-07T12:45:48.608-07:00The First Image Ever of a Hydrogen Atom's Orbital Structure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You’re looking at is the first direct look of an atom’s electron orbits which can be mathematically described by Atom's Real wave function! To take the photo, Scientists utilized A quantum microscope — an incredibly Innovative device that helps scientists to look into the quantum world.!<br />
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An orbital structure is the space in an atom that’s occupied by an electron. But describing these super-microscopic properties of matter, scientists have to depend on wave functions — a mathematical way of describing the quantum states of particles, basically, quantum physicists use formulas like the Schrödinger equation to describe these states, often coming up with complex numbers and Strange graphs!<br />
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Up until this point, scientists have never been able to actually observe the electron orbit. Trying to get an atom’s exact position or the momentum of its alone electron direct observations have this obstacle of quantum coherence. So to get a full quantum state We need tool that can statistically average many measurements over time And to magnify this results scientists needs the quantum microscope — a device that uses photoionization microscopy to visualize atomic structures directly.<br />
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Aneta Stodolna of the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in the Netherlands describes how she and her team get a picture of the nodal structure of an electronic orbital of a hydrogen atom placed in a static (dc) electric field in Physical Reviw Letter..<br />
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After zapping the atom with laser pulses, ionized electrons escaped and followed a particular trajectory to a 2D detector (dual microchannel plate [MCP] detector placed perpendicular to the field itself). There are many trajectories that can be taken by the electrons to reach the same point on the detector, thus Scientist got the set of interference patterns — patterns that shows the nodal structure of the wave function.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee; font-family: arial;"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Entanglement can come in if you have two photons. Each can be put into the uncertain vertical-and-horizontal state. However, the photons can be entangled so that their </span><span style="line-height: 21.325000762939453px;">polarizations</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> are correlated even while they remain undetermined. For example, if you measure the first photon and find it horizontally polarized, you'll know that the other photon has instantaneously collapsed into the vertical state and vice versa—no matter how far away it is. Because the collapse happens instantly, Albert Einstein dubbed the effect "spooky action at a distance." It doesn't violate relativity, though: It's impossible to control the outcome of the measurement of the first photon, so the quantum link can't be used to send a message faster than light.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Now Eli Megidish, Hagai Eisenberg, and colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have entangled two photons that don't exist at the same time. They start with a scheme known as entanglement swapping. To begin, researchers zap a special crystal with laser light a couple of times to create two entangled pairs of photons, pair 1 and 2 and pair 3 and 4. At the start, photons 1 and 4 are not tangled. But they can be if physicists play the right trick with 2 and 3.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">The key is that a measurement "project<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">s" a particle into a definite state -- just as the measurement of a photon collapses it into either vertical or horizontal polarization. So even though photons 2 and 3 start out unentangled, physicists can set up a "projective measurement" that asks, are the two in one of two distinct entangled states or the other? That measurement entangles the photons, even as it absorbs and destroys them. If the researchers select only the events in which photons 2 and 3 end up in, say, the first entangled state, then the measurement also entangles photons 1 and 4. (See diagram, top.) The effect is a bit like joining two pairs of gears to form a four-gear chain: Enmeshing to inner two gears establishes a link between the outer two.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">In recent years, physicists have played with the timing in the scheme. For example, last year a team showed that entanglement swapping still works even if they make the projective measurement after they've already measured the polarizations of photons 1 and 4. Now, Eisenberg and colleagues have shown thatphotons 1 and 4 don't even have to exist at the same time, as they report in a paper in press at <em>Physical Review Letters</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">To do that, they first create entangled pair 1 and 2 and measure the polarization of 1 right away. Only after that do they create entangled pair 3 and 4 and perform the key projective measurement. Finally, they measure the polarization of photon 4. And even though photons 1 and 4 never coexist, the measurements show that their polarizations still end up entangled. Eisenberg emphasizes that even though in relativity, time measured differently by observers traveling at different speeds, no observer would ever see the two photons as coexisting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">The experiment shows that it's not strictly logical to think of entanglement as a tangible physical property, Eisenberg says. "There is no moment in time in which the two photons coexist," he says, "so you cannot say that the system is entangled at this or that moment." Yet, the phenomenon definitely exists. Anton Zeilinger, a physicist at the University of Vienna, agrees that the experiment demonstrates just how slippery the concepts of quantum mechanics are. "It's really neat because it shows more or less that quantum events are outside our everyday notions of space and time."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">So what's the advance good for? Physicists hope to create quantum networks in which protocols like entanglement swapping are used to create quantum links among distant users and transmit uncrackable (but slower than light) secret communications. The new result suggests that when sharing entangled pairs of photons on such a network, a user wouldn't have to wait to see what happens to the photons sent down the line before manipulating the ones kept behind, Eisenberg says. Zeilinger says the result might have other unexpected uses: "This sort of thing opens up people's minds and suddenly somebody has an idea to use it in quantum computing or something."</span></div>
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