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The famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) quantum entanglement was simply a theoretical hypothesis when it was proposed in 1935 [1] . In brief, quantum entanglement implies that a measurement performed in a physical system can give access to information on another system at a different location instantaneously. This quantum phenomenon is so intriguing that it is sometimes dubbed “spooky action at a distance”. It was actually Erwin Schr¨odinger who first clearly identified and named quantum entanglement in his papers responding to the EPR paper [2–5] (see, e.g., Ref. [6] for a recent review) . But quantum entanglement turned out to be true, and the EPR paper turned out to be the most cited paper of Albert Einstein’s as recorded in the INSPIRE database. In comparison, Schr¨odinger’s cat as a vivid illustration of quantum entanglement became more popular around the world.  \nLet us imagine that there are two identical boxes containing two Schr¨odinger’s cats that originate from the same dynamical process but are simultaneously dead and alive. So the two invisible cats are quantum-entangled or quantum-correlated, implying that they cannot be simply represented as a product of the states |dead⟩ and |alive⟩ . Instead, the two entangled cats should be described by the state  \nΨcats ≡ 2 h |dead⟩1 |alive⟩2 + |alive⟩1 |dead⟩2i , (1)  \nwhere box “1” and box “2” are indistinguishable from outside. Now the two boxes are separated from each other at a distance, such that they lose their original locality and hence are expected to be no longer correlated. However, this expectation is not true. The key point of quantum entanglement is that as soon as one box is opened to make sure of the situation of the inside cat (dead or alive), the situation of the cat inside the other box can be simultaneously fixed (alive or dead) .  \nIn particle physics, the pseudoscalar mesons K0 and ¯K0 were the first pair of Schr¨odinger’scats, thanks to the pioneering insight into K0- ¯K0 mixing via the one-loop (box-diagram) weak interactions by Murray Gell-Mann and Abraham Pais [7] . The K0- ¯K0 mixing effect was first observed in 1956, and later on the similar quantum effects of B0d- ¯B0d mixing (1987), B0s- ¯B0s mixing (2006) and D0- ¯D0 mixing (2007) were also measured [8] . These meson-antimeson correlation systems not only provided a distinctive playground for testing the standard model (SM) of particle physics, but also offered an ideal playground for verifying the EPR effect [9–15] .  \nThe most striking success in this regard should be an unambiguous measurement of the Kobayashi-Maskawa (KM) phase in 2001, with the help of quantum-entangled B0d and ¯B0d mesons produced on the Υ(4S) resonance in the BaBar and Belle experiments [38,39] . In fact, this phase is the only observed fundamental phase parameter of the SM which characterizes the strength  \nof weak CP violation [18] . As well known in quantum mechanics and quantum field theories, behind non-observable phases may exist an underlying symmetry, while an observable p","cbCaigHtg6fF1L6b","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigHtg6fF1L6b","pdf",339927,"English","# Quantum entanglement: from a hypothesis to reality\n## Imagined entangled systems and correlated outcomes\n## Meson–antimeson pairs as EPR testbeds\n## Kobayashi-Maskawa CP phase via entangled B decays\n# How is a pair of entangled meson and antimeson formed\n## Parity and charge-conjugation transformations for neutral mesons\n## Coherent production in electron–positron collisions at quarkonium resonance","[{\"question\":\"What does quantum entanglement mean in the context of this paper?\",\"answer\":\"A measurement on one part of a correlated system immediately determines the outcome of the other part, even at a distant separation. The paper illustrates this idea using entangled states rather than independent products of separate states.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are neutral meson–antimeson systems important for testing CP violation and entanglement?\",\"answer\":\"They provide a distinctive platform to test the standard model and to verify EPR-type correlations experimentally. Meson mixing allows controlled comparisons between theory phases and observable effects.\"},{\"question\":\"How are entangled neutral meson–antimeson pairs coherently produced in experiments?\",\"answer\":\"In electron–positron collisions at quarkonium resonance, the strong decay can produce a neutral meson pair with definite charge-conjugation parity. Conservation of quantum numbers constrains the pair into an entangled eigenstate suitable for CP-related measurements.\"}]","Quantum-entangled B mesons and CP violation - a brief overview | PDF",25]