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Nature 439, 397 (26 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/439397a; Published online 25 January 2006

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Vlatko Vedral1

  1. Vlatko Vedral is professor of quantum information science at the University of Leeds, UK.

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Entanglement, a mind-boggling form of correlations that exist between objects in the quantum world, is helping to explain phenomena and jazzing up computing. But it looks as if much more may be in store.

The concept of correlations is familiar to us from everyday experiences. We try to eat healthy food, drink less coffee and give up smoking because we believe that such behaviour is correlated to a higher life expectancy.

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