Weakly Entangled Proton and Neutron Orbitals
This post will discuss what findings concerning weakly entangled proton and neutron orbitals mean for a journey towards quantum internet. The most important term to recap to understand this post is quantum entanglement: Quantum entanglement is a unique phenomenon in quantum physics where two or more particles become linked, and the state of one particle is immediately connected to the state of the other, no matter how far apart they are. This is a key resource in quantum communication and quantum computing. The findings I want to explore come from an arxiv paper titled "Quantum entanglement patterns in the structure of atomic nuclei within the nuclear shell model" by A. Pérez-Obiol, S. Masot-Llima, A. M. Romero, J. Menéndez, A. Rios, A. García-Sáez, and B. Juliá-Díaz from 11th of Jul 2023. It explores the entanglement features in the nuclear shell model, focusing on Be, O, Ne, and Ca isotopes. Artistic visualization of a quantum entanglement generated with "midjourney&q