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From spooky foundations

Quantum entanglement is as confounding as it is potentially useful. A paper in 2006 suggested that its utility might extend to making sense of a fundamental puzzle in statistical mechanics.

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Figure 1: A quantum universe can be separated into a bipartite universe, in which a small subsystem, S, is entangled with a larger environment, E.

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Deffner, S. From spooky foundations. Nature Phys 11, 383–384 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3318

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