"When two particles are in a spin-entangled state, measuring one particle nonlocally influences the spin state of the other," Xian-Min Jin and Dr. Jian-Peng Dou, co-authors of the paper, told Phys.org.

"This insight led us to a bold conjecture: quantum correlations could enable the nonlocal alteration of energy distribution in space. This seemingly surreal phenomenon was alluded to in the de Broglie-Bohm theory, yet it has neither been formally named nor experimentally tested."