Quantum weirdness; our reality (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, July 16, 2014, 16:12 (3783 days ago) @ David Turell

This is especially for dhw: yes we deal with quantum particles all the time in life and in science. This is working on quantum computing, still trying to deal with particle and wave, entanglement, etc.:-
"In quantum teleportation2, qubits (specifying, for example, a photon's precise state) are transmitted between quantum-entangled locations via classical communication systems. "In this case, the essential resource is entanglement between the ancillary squeezed vacuum and nonclassical non-Gaussian states, which are created by a beam splitter with no losses," Furusawa notes. "Our successful teleportation of the squeezing operation to a single-photon state and Schrödinger's-cat" - that is, superposition - "state is the first example of deterministic quantum gate teleportation."
 
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-particle-optical-qubit-technique-photons.html#jCp