Chinese Scientists Just Teleported An Object Into Earth’s Orbit For The First Time | Awaken
Posted on July 15, 2017 | Views: 492
by Sarah Marquart: Not long ago, in the early 1990s, scientists only speculated that teleportation using quantum physics could be possible…
Since then, the process has become a standard operation in quantum optics labs around the world. In fact, just last year, two teams conducted the world’s first quantum teleportation outside a laboratory.
“Long-distance teleportation has been recognized as a fundamental element in protocols such as large-scale quantum networks and distributed quantum computation,” the Chinese team told MIT Technology Review. “Previous teleportation experiments between distant locations were limited to a distance on the order of 100 kilometers, due to photon loss in optical fibers or terrestrial free-space channels.”
Your brain might conjure images of Scotty beaming up the Enterprise crew in “Star Trek,” but it’s actually quite a different process than sci-fi films present.
Despite these limits, this research paves the way for even more ambitious studies of quantum teleportation. “This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum internet,” the team says.
Chinese Scientists Just Teleported An Object Into Earth’s Orbit For The First Time | Awaken
Posted on July 15, 2017 | Views: 492
by Sarah Marquart: Not long ago, in the early 1990s, scientists only speculated that teleportation using quantum physics could be possible…
Since then, the process has become a standard operation in quantum optics labs around the world. In fact, just last year, two teams conducted the world’s first quantum teleportation outside a laboratory.
“Long-distance teleportation has been recognized as a fundamental element in protocols such as large-scale quantum networks and distributed quantum computation,” the Chinese team told MIT Techno
logy Review. “Previous teleportation experiments between distant locations were limited to a distance on the order of 100 kilometers, due to photon loss in optical fibers or terrestrial free-space channels.”
Your brain might conjure images of Scotty beaming up the Enterprise crew in “Star Trek,” but it’s actually quite a different process than sci-fi films present.
Despite these limits, this research paves the way for even more ambitious studies of quantum teleportation. “This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite up-link for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward global-scale quantum internet,” the team says.