Quantum Teleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits: First Between Atoms 1 Meter Apart

[amyrose2712]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 23, 2009) — For the first time, scientists have successfully teleported information between two separate atoms in unconnected enclosures a meter apart – a significant milestone in the global quest for practical quantum information processing.

Teleportation may be nature's most mysterious form of transport: Quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without traveling through any physical medium. It has previously been achieved between photons over very large distances, between photons and ensembles of atoms, and between two nearby atoms through the intermediary action of a third. None of those, however, provides a feasible means of holding and managing quantum information over long distances.

Now a team from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Michigan has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a substantial distance. That capability is necessary for workable quantum information systems because they will require memory storage at both the sending and receiving ends of the transmission.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122141137.htm

[tama]

1. "Telepathy"

is constant occurrence...

[xchrom]

2. oy -- they just need to talk to mother -- she teleports

'guilt information' to me all the time.

[Sandrine for you]

5. rofl

:rofl: :rofl:

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. We sure have come far

from crucibles, powders, and Philosophick Mercury.

[silverweb]

4. Fascinating.

More evidence that "miracles" and "magick" are just science that isn't understood yet.

[caraher]

6. Or not.

It's more evidence that nature is "non-local," which is remarkable enough in its own right. But you need to do a lot of intellectual heavy lifting to get from these sorts of experiments to explaining putative miracles.