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Quantum Applications of the Photon

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For classic particles with well-defined states (bits 0 or 1), information is sent at a rate of one bit at a time. However, in 1992 Charles Bennett and Stephen Wiesner theorized that by using entangled particles in quantum channels, two bits of information could be encoded in one qubit.

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