Physicists usually build entanglement from the ground up, by forcing multiple atoms, ions, or photons into close contact. Now, following up on a 2003 proposal by Anders Sørensen and Klaus Mølmer, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany have sculpted their way to entanglement by removing undesired components of the wavefunction that describes two atoms.
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