unentangled
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈtæŋɡəld/
- Specialized
- Researchers demonstrated that the particles remained unentangled even after being separated by large distances.
Examples
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What one needs for two marbles is the tensor product of the Hilbert spaces, and the probabilities for conditions "marble 1 does something and marble 2 does something else" reduce to the product of the two individual probabilities if the marbles are unentangled.
Blog text (30) -
In quantum physics, two particles are said to be unentangled when their states do not affect each other.
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I say this is unentangled with the electrons because that's what we started with UDUD and no photon.
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But if either of the input Phi+ states is replaced by a random unentangled pair of particles, the other is partly randomized, so that neither output pair remains a perfect Phi+.
Academic text (1995) -
For accurate measurements, we need to ensure that the photons are unentangled from each other.
Synonyms
Not joined or linked to something else
Not joined to something it was attached to before
A person who is not married and lives alone
How Entangled
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Morphology
Etymology
Unentangled comes from the parts un- ('not') and entangle, which itself has en- ('in') and tangle ('to twist'), so it literally means 'not twisted together'. In quantum physics this gives a clear image: unentangled particles are like two separate ropes lying side by side, each with its own state rather than being joined.