A loophole-free Bell test also has crucial implications for quantum cryptography, says Leifer. Companies already sell systems that use quantum mechanics to block eavesdroppers. The systems produce entangled pairs of photons, sending one photon in each pair to the first user and the other photon to the second user. The two users then turn these photons into a cryptographic key that only they know. Because observing a quantum system disrupts its properties, if someone tries to eavesdrop on this process it will produce a noticeable effect, setting off an alarm.
This is really exciting! But let's not get ahead of ourselves. The article is not yet peer reviewed and as someone commented on the article, we need to let science run it's proper course. The experiment needs to be repeated and reproduced.
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