In a paper published yesterday in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from Zurich has demonstrated the ability to control quantum teleportation using what looks like nothing more than a microchip. This new research development could change the very face of computing and technological security.
“People automatically think about Star Trek when they hear teleportation,” says physicist Andreas Wallraff, of the Quantum Device Lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. “In Star Trek, it’s the idea of moving people from point A to B without having the person travel that distance. They disappear and then reappear.” Quantum teleportation is a little bit different. It does not actually transport objects from one point to another, but instead transfers information about the object and integrates that information into a new object.
Quantum teleportation itself is nothing new. In 1993, an international group of six scientists were able to show that teleportation is in fact possible in principle. Later in 1997, physicists developed a technique that achieved quantum teleportation, but it was inconsistent and only a fraction of the information actually got transported.
Scientists successfully teleport information in an electronic circuit
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