Revealing quantum entanglement and hidden order in real materials

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/APS-Science-Highlight/2026-05-19/revealing-quantum-entanglement-and-hidden-order-in-real-materials
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An international team of scientists exploited interference effects in X-rays scattered from a quantum material and accurately reconstructed its quantum entanglement spectrum. They used a technique called resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to accomplish this.

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Several diagrams showing the entanglement spectrum revealed by resonant inelastic X-ray scattering.
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