Communications of the future may be securely encoded in light that is twisted like fusilli pasta. A long-distance transmission of particles of light above the Vienna skyline demonstrates a new way of relaying information using the tricks of quantum physics. Researchers exploited light's twistiness to establish a delicate quantum connection called entanglement between pairs of photons. The entanglement stayed intact even after one photon from each pair traversed three kilometers.
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