Can a photon be separated from its polarization; or an electron from its magnetic moment? Recent work suggests that in certain contexts, this might not be as impossible as it sounds.
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Bancal, JD. Isolate the subject. Nature Phys 10, 11–12 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2854
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