Hyper Entanglement

Caltech physicists, led by Professor Manuel Endres, achieved hyper entanglement in massive particles like neutral atoms using atomic motion

Hyper entanglement means two particles are entangled in multiple properties (e.g., motion and electronic state), not just one

Traditionally, atomic motion was considered noise, but the researchers turned it into a resource for encoding quantum information

A novel “erasure cooling” method was used to bring atoms to near-total stillness, surpassing standard laser cooling techniques

After cooling, atoms were excited into a superposition of two different oscillations, creating a quantum state with multiple characteristics

The experiment demonstrated that atomic motion can be harnessed for quantum information storage and manipulation

Hyper entanglement allows encoding more quantum information per atom, increasing efficiency and reducing resource requirements