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Entanglement as elbow grease

Quantum correlations have long been recognized as an informational resource for quantum communication and computation. It now seems that they can also do physical work. See Letter p.61

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Hayden, P. Entanglement as elbow grease. Nature 474, 41–42 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/474041a

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