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SUBMITTER: Eckart S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10491222 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eckart Sebastian S Trabert Daniel D Rist Jonas J Geyer Angelina A Schmidt Lothar Ph H LPH Fehre Kilian K Kunitski Maksim M
Science advances 20230908 36
Atoms can form a molecule by sharing their electrons in binding orbitals. These electrons are entangled. Is there a way to break a molecular bond and obtain atoms in their ground state that are spatially separated and still entangled? Here, we show that it is possible to prepare these spatially separated, entangled atoms on femtosecond time scales from single oxygen molecules. The two neutral atoms are entangled in the magnetic quantum number of their valence electrons. In a time-delayed probe s ...[more]