• The work offers a better description of how quickly information can travel within a system built of quantum particles such as a group of individual atoms.
  • The proof addresses the rate at which entanglement propagates across quantum systems. Entanglement—the weird linkage of quantum information between two distant particles—is important, because the more quickly particles grow entangled with one another, the faster they can share data.
  • The team's work, however, shows that propagation time grows as a power of its size, meaning that while quantum computers may be able to solve problems that ordinary computers find devilishly complex, their processors will not be speed demons.

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