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All the scientific documents explaining QE that I have read always refer to the entanglement of photons, and yet some news reports state that ions such as beryllium and magnesium have been entangled (http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090603-maco-entanglement.html) so that instead of just their spin or polarization being entangled, their movement becomes intrinsically linked, so they will vibrate in opposite directions, for example.
Is this correct, can ions be entangled, and can anyone explain how? Would it mean that atoms could then be entangled, or that even larger things could be, such as compounds, or even something macroscopic like two pure aluminium balls? And can this type of entanglement be used to transfer or split energy between two or more particles?
Is this correct, can ions be entangled, and can anyone explain how? Would it mean that atoms could then be entangled, or that even larger things could be, such as compounds, or even something macroscopic like two pure aluminium balls? And can this type of entanglement be used to transfer or split energy between two or more particles?