A quarter of a century after it was first posed, a fundamental question about the nature of quantum entanglement finally has an answer – and that answer is “no”. In a groundbreaking study, Julio I de Vicente from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain showed that so-called maximally entangled mixed states for a fixed spectrum do not always exist, challenging long-standing assumptions in quantum information theory in a way that has broad implications for quantum technologies.
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