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Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantum entangled

      
Physics 17 December 2021

By Alex Wilkins

An illustration of a tardigrade

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A tardigrade has been quantum entangled with a superconducting qubit
- and lived to tell the tale. It is the first time a multicellular
organism has been placed in this strange quantum state and raises
questions about what it means for living things to be entangled.

Tardigrades are microscopic animals that can survive extreme
temperatures and pressures in a hibernating state called a tun.
Rainer Dumke and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, placed one of these hibernating tardigrades on a
superconducting qubit, an element ...

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