To send a quantum message, it helps to have a photon six-pack.
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When bound together by a process called quantum entanglement, a set of six photons can withstand the hard knocks that ordinarily would erase quantum information, researchers have shown.
Papers describing the new experiment appear in the Oct. 9 Physical Review Letters and the October Physical Review A.