“It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium,” Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
“Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter,” Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained.
“Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement,” he added.
Quantum entanglement involves entwining two or more particles without physical contact.
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“thousands of billions of atoms”?? if im not mistaken i think that would be called trillions
Great. If they REALLY come up with teleportation, cars, flights, and many other types of transportation will be useless. AND we will be able to get more done, faster….. that’s if they can teleport humans 🙂
Baboons everyonewhere will be groaning at this news.