Scientists have been predicting that the strangeness of quantum mechanics will lead to computing and communications devices of unprecedented power. In pursuit of those trophies, researchers have struggled to control the frail, fleeting quantum states of minuscule particles. Now, a relatively simple and robust way of manipulating quantum states may be at hand.
Hit by an infrared pulse, cesium clouds glow (false color) and forge a hidden quantum bond.
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