The team hopes that this might become a powerful tool that paves the way for new quantum communication protocols that use topology as an alphabet for quantum information processing across entanglement-based channels.
The findings reported in the article are crucial because researchers have grappled for decades with developing techniques to preserve entangled states. The fact that topology remains intact even as entanglement decays suggests a potentially new encoding mechanism that utilizes entanglement, even in scenarios with minimal entanglement where traditional encoding protocols would fail.
Edit: Here is the quoted article link.
And here’s is the published paper.
Edit: someone below linked to this so you don’t have to pay for knowledge
You act unsurprised like this is obvious. Yet understand that light and shine waves are related is a pretty big step from not knowing it.
Assuming it without demonstration doesn’t count. Anyone can assume anything. And a broken clock will always be right twice a day.
My point is that “intextricably linked” makes no sense when talking about an abstract model and a real phenomenon. They aren’t inextricably “linked”, one is real the other isn’t how could they possibly be linked. It’s the person modeling reality that makes the link.