Entangled photons conspire to create interference patterns that would normally be associated with a wavelength much smaller than that of the individual photons — beating the diffraction limit.
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Bouwmeester, D. High NOON for photons. Nature 429, 139–141 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/429139a
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