Teleportation of light particles across cities a 'technological breakthrough'
Teleportation of light particles across cities in China and Canada a 'technological breakthrough'
Scientists have shown they can teleport matter across a city, a development that has been hailed as "a technological breakthrough".However, do not expect to see something akin to the Star Trek crew beaming from the planet's surface to the Starship Enterprise.
Instead, in the two studies, published today in Nature Photonics, separate research groups have used quantum teleportation to send photons to new locations using fibre-optic communications networks in the cities of Hefei in China and Calgary in Canada.
Quantum teleportation is the ability to transfer information such as the properties or the quantum state of an atom — its energy, spin, motion, magnetic field and other physical properties — to another location without travelling in the space between.