Stealing from the company's bank accounts could earn you time in the big house. But embezzlement from a quantum ledger might not be against the law.
In fact, a new study finds it might be a handy way to entangle particles without messing up their mathematics.
Earlier this century, quantum computing researcher Wim van Dam and physicist Patrick Hayden described a process they called embezzling entanglement, named for the light-fingered approach some systems could potentially take to combining their numbers without leaving a trace.
Theoretical physicists Lauritz van Luijk, Alexander Stottmeister, Reinhard F. Werner, and Henrik Wilming of Leibniz University Hannover in Germany have now identified fields that could be key players in this unusual quantum heist.
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