Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit

Feynman's 1982 conjecture, that quantum computers can be programmed to simulate any local quantum system, is shown to be correct.

Quantum mechanics, through the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, imposes limits on the precision of measurement. Conventional measurement techniques typically fail to reach these limits. Conventional bounds to the precision of measurements such as the shot noise limit or the standard quantum limit are not as fundamental as the Heisenberg limits and can be beaten using quantum strategies that employ "quantum tricks" such as squeezing and entanglement.