interatom

English

Etymology

From inter- +‎ atom.

Adjective

interatom (not comparable)

1. Occurring between atoms.
   • 2009 January 23, M. S. Kim, Jaeyoon Cho, “PHYSICS: Teleporting a Quantum State to Distant Matter”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:

     The two photons from the two atoms are jointly measured with a beam splitter, which mixes the two input photons, and the atom-photon entanglement is transferred to interatom entanglement, which is the entanglement swap.