Although teleportation is associated with the science-fiction series Star Trek, no one is likely to be beamed anywhere soon.

But the achievement of Polzik's team, in collaboration with the theorist Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, marks an advancement in the field of quantum information and computers, which could transmit and process information in a way that was impossible before.

"It is really about teleporting information from one site to another site. Quantum information is different from classical information in the sense that it cannot be measured. It has much higher information capacity and it cannot be eavesdropped on. The transmission of quantum information can be made unconditionally secure," said Polzik whose research is reported in the journal Nature.

Quantum computing requires manipulation of information contained in the quantum states, which include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field, of the atoms.

"Creating entanglement is a very important step but there are two more steps at least to perform teleportation. We have succeeded in making all three steps -- that is entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback," he added.

(CNN Science News)

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I want to talk about entanglement. Here on the MOAB, as elsewhere on the 'Cat, we seem to have had a number of very significant successes at that part, but it has done nothing to improve the quality of the information involved. This may be because we are actually accessing a meta-level of informatics, tuning in through the rubric of BS to the actual multi-dimensional nature of qubit information. Or it may just be because we are a buncha dumb fucks.

What are your thoughts on this?

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