"The teleporter" in the lab of Professor Akira Furusawa at the University of Tokyo
Professor Elanor Huntington and PhD student James Webb from the University of New South Wales are the first to repeatedly teleport uncorrupted quantum data from one point to another. In the past, anyone attempting this would experience changed or missing information passing through similar channels, and the process was slow. Huntington's observed quantum teleportation happened much faster. The team stated that any type of communication can be transferred through this conduit.
Much like the Schrodinger's Cat paradox, the communicated quantum data sits in superposition, in two states at once. (In the cat's case, alive and dead.) Huntington stated that the data can be sent via a beam of light, "and it’s a powerful way to represent and process information."
Although the word teleport is used, this does not imply faster than light travel. (instantly moving the quantum data from point A to B is not possible, but this development is quite fast.)
Huntington says what the next step is, " This process means we will be able to move blocks of quantum information around within a computer or across a network, just as we do now with existing computer technologies." Quantum computer now has the framework, the future is so close.
When the first quantum processor is made, today's supercomputers will be an irrelevant joke.
When the first quantum processor is made, today's supercomputers will be an irrelevant joke.
The experiment was conducted in the laboratory of Professor Akira Furusawa at the University of Tokyo.
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