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Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your body

  • Written by Nicholas Peters, Joint Faculty, University of Tennessee
Nobel-winning quantum weirdness undergirds an emerging high-tech industry, promising better ways of encrypting communications and imaging your bodyDevices like this experimental apparatus can produce pairs of photons that are linked, or 'entangled'.Carlos Jones/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution medical imaging all have something in common. These technologies – some under development and some already on the market all...

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