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A gentle touch

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Light is an excellent tool for making precise measurements of objects, but can sometimes alter or damage a sensitive sample. Researchers have now shown that entanglement and quantum-correlated light can be used to help alleviate this problem.

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Figure 1: Wolfgramm et al.'s set-up that uses a two-photon NOON state.

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  1. Geoff J. Pryde is at the Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia,

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