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From https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/quantum-radar-stealth-aircraft/
In principle, a quantum radar functions like a regular radar — only
that instead of sending out a single beam of electromagnetic energy,
it uses two split streams of entangled photons. Only one of these
beams is sent out, but due to a quirk of quantum physics both streams
will display the same changes, despite being potentially miles apart.
As a result, by looking at the stream which remains back home it’s
possible to work out what has happened to the other beam.
Wouldn't this imply faster-than-light information transfer? Is there any way that the interactions of a remote particle can influence a local entangled particle?
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From https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/quantum-radar-stealth-aircraft/
In principle, a quantum radar functions like a regular radar — only
that instead of sending out a single beam of electromagnetic energy,
it uses two split streams of entangled photons. Only one of these
beams is sent out, but due to a quirk of quantum physics both streams
will display the same changes, despite being potentially miles apart.
As a result, by looking at the stream which remains back home it’s
possible to work out what has happened to the other beam.
Wouldn't this imply faster-than-light information transfer? Is there any way that the interactions of a remote particle can influence a local entangled particle?
quantum-mechanics photons quantum-information quantum-entanglement faster-than-light
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From https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/quantum-radar-stealth-aircraft/
In principle, a quantum radar functions like a regular radar — only
that instead of sending out a single beam of electromagnetic energy,
it uses two split streams of entangled photons. Only one of these
beams is sent out, but due to a quirk of quantum physics both streams
will display the same changes, despite being potentially miles apart.
As a result, by looking at the stream which remains back home it’s
possible to work out what has happened to the other beam.
Wouldn't this imply faster-than-light information transfer? Is there any way that the interactions of a remote particle can influence a local entangled particle?
quantum-mechanics photons quantum-information quantum-entanglement faster-than-light
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Quantum entanglement as practical method of superluminal communication
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From https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/quantum-radar-stealth-aircraft/
In principle, a quantum radar functions like a regular radar — only
that instead of sending out a single beam of electromagnetic energy,
it uses two split streams of entangled photons. Only one of these
beams is sent out, but due to a quirk of quantum physics both streams
will display the same changes, despite being potentially miles apart.
As a result, by looking at the stream which remains back home it’s
possible to work out what has happened to the other beam.
Wouldn't this imply faster-than-light information transfer? Is there any way that the interactions of a remote particle can influence a local entangled particle?
This question already has an answer here:
Quantum entanglement as practical method of superluminal communication
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Quantum radar is a real thing. The description is somewhat wrong.
In radar, you send out a beam of radio waves which get reflected, and you measure them when you come back to look at the objects they were reflected off of.
In quantum radar you send out a beam of radio waves, which are entangled with another beam. This first beam gets reflected. And when it comes back, you interfere them with the other beam to learn about the objects that reflected them.
So there's no faster-than-light transfer, because the beam comes back before you extract the information (just like conventional radar).
There are real theoretical advantages to using quantum radar, but it is also quite a bit more complicated to make it work. The article says that it's not clear whether this is a real device yet or whether it's still vaporware.
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Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
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@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
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Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_radar.
The particles retain their entanglement at large separations.
This question discusses the issue of whether this implies faster-than-light information transfer:
Quantum entanglement faster than speed of light?
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Quantum radar is a real thing. The description is somewhat wrong.
In radar, you send out a beam of radio waves which get reflected, and you measure them when you come back to look at the objects they were reflected off of.
In quantum radar you send out a beam of radio waves, which are entangled with another beam. This first beam gets reflected. And when it comes back, you interfere them with the other beam to learn about the objects that reflected them.
So there's no faster-than-light transfer, because the beam comes back before you extract the information (just like conventional radar).
There are real theoretical advantages to using quantum radar, but it is also quite a bit more complicated to make it work. The article says that it's not clear whether this is a real device yet or whether it's still vaporware.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Shor
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Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
11 hours ago
1
@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
– Peter Shor
10 hours ago
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Quantum radar is a real thing. The description is somewhat wrong.
In radar, you send out a beam of radio waves which get reflected, and you measure them when you come back to look at the objects they were reflected off of.
In quantum radar you send out a beam of radio waves, which are entangled with another beam. This first beam gets reflected. And when it comes back, you interfere them with the other beam to learn about the objects that reflected them.
So there's no faster-than-light transfer, because the beam comes back before you extract the information (just like conventional radar).
There are real theoretical advantages to using quantum radar, but it is also quite a bit more complicated to make it work. The article says that it's not clear whether this is a real device yet or whether it's still vaporware.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Shor
8,7402255
Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
11 hours ago
1
@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
– Peter Shor
10 hours ago
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up vote
17
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Quantum radar is a real thing. The description is somewhat wrong.
In radar, you send out a beam of radio waves which get reflected, and you measure them when you come back to look at the objects they were reflected off of.
In quantum radar you send out a beam of radio waves, which are entangled with another beam. This first beam gets reflected. And when it comes back, you interfere them with the other beam to learn about the objects that reflected them.
So there's no faster-than-light transfer, because the beam comes back before you extract the information (just like conventional radar).
There are real theoretical advantages to using quantum radar, but it is also quite a bit more complicated to make it work. The article says that it's not clear whether this is a real device yet or whether it's still vaporware.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Shor
8,7402255
Quantum radar is a real thing. The description is somewhat wrong.
In radar, you send out a beam of radio waves which get reflected, and you measure them when you come back to look at the objects they were reflected off of.
In quantum radar you send out a beam of radio waves, which are entangled with another beam. This first beam gets reflected. And when it comes back, you interfere them with the other beam to learn about the objects that reflected them.
So there's no faster-than-light transfer, because the beam comes back before you extract the information (just like conventional radar).
There are real theoretical advantages to using quantum radar, but it is also quite a bit more complicated to make it work. The article says that it's not clear whether this is a real device yet or whether it's still vaporware.
answered 2 days ago
Peter Shor
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Peter Shor
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Peter Shor
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Peter Shor
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Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
11 hours ago
1
@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
– Peter Shor
10 hours ago
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Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
11 hours ago
1
@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
– Peter Shor
10 hours ago
Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
11 hours ago
Where do they keep the 2nd beam while the 1st is our exploring the sky? Does it just keep bouncing around in a bottle somewhere? If the wavelength is kilometers long, wont it dissipate before the 1st gets back?
– Chloe
11 hours ago
1
1
@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
– Peter Shor
10 hours ago
@Chloe: this is presumably one of the things that makes building these things difficult. For a demonstration system, you could just bounce it off something you made specially for this purpose. For a real, portable, system maybe you could store it in optical fibers. (From wikipedia, it looks like you need to start with visible or near-infrared frequencies to produce the entanglement, after which you convert to microwave frequencies.)
– Peter Shor
10 hours ago
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Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_radar.
The particles retain their entanglement at large separations.
This question discusses the issue of whether this implies faster-than-light information transfer:
Quantum entanglement faster than speed of light?
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Peter Shor’s answer is much better than mine, and I have voted for his.
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Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_radar.
The particles retain their entanglement at large separations.
This question discusses the issue of whether this implies faster-than-light information transfer:
Quantum entanglement faster than speed of light?
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AccidentalFourierTransform
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G. Smith
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Peter Shor’s answer is much better than mine, and I have voted for his.
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Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_radar.
The particles retain their entanglement at large separations.
This question discusses the issue of whether this implies faster-than-light information transfer:
Quantum entanglement faster than speed of light?
edited 2 days ago
AccidentalFourierTransform
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answered 2 days ago
G. Smith
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Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_radar.
The particles retain their entanglement at large separations.
This question discusses the issue of whether this implies faster-than-light information transfer:
Quantum entanglement faster than speed of light?
edited 2 days ago
AccidentalFourierTransform
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answered 2 days ago
G. Smith
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AccidentalFourierTransform
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AccidentalFourierTransform
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AccidentalFourierTransform
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G. Smith
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Peter Shor’s answer is much better than mine, and I have voted for his.
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Peter Shor’s answer is much better than mine, and I have voted for his.
– G. Smith
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Peter Shor’s answer is much better than mine, and I have voted for his.
– G. Smith
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Peter Shor’s answer is much better than mine, and I have voted for his.
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