Speaker
Dr
Armin Tavakoli
(Lund University)
Description
Quantum particles, even if separated by large distances, can exhibit a strangely powerful connection which allows them to instantaneously influence each other. This phenomenon is called entanglement and it gives rise to a plethora of quantum effects that have neither a counterpart nor a possible explanation in classical lines of thought. The 2022 Nobel prize in physics highlights the groundbreaking experiments that demonstrated the reality of entanglement. In this talk, I discuss the historical puzzle that entanglement posed: how it developed from being a question of metaphysics, to becoming an empirically testable hypothesis, to the present where it is paving the way for the era of quantum technology.
