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

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

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

Noah to God (Bill Cosby version): "what's a qubit?"

seriously, though, this is brain food
yummy