Nature Communications (May 2017)

Experimental test of photonic entanglement in accelerated reference frames

  • Matthias Fink,
  • Ana Rodriguez-Aramendia,
  • Johannes Handsteiner,
  • Abdul Ziarkash,
  • Fabian Steinlechner,
  • Thomas Scheidl,
  • Ivette Fuentes,
  • Jacques Pienaar,
  • Timothy C. Ralph,
  • Rupert Ursin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15304
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The unification of the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics is a long-standing challenge in physics. Here the authors investigate the effects of a wide range of accelerations on an entangled photon pair, providing an upper bound for the effects of non-inertial frames on quantum systems.