Teleportation of humans got a bit closer.

[War Lord]

http://news.com.com/Quantum+informa...395_3-6122801.html?tag=fd_nbs_ent&tag=nl.e703

Quantum information teleported from light to matter
Breakthrough by physicists in Denmark brings quantum communication and computing closer to reality.

Beaming people in "Star Trek"-fashion is still in the realm of science fiction. But physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter, bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality.

Until now, scientists have teleported similar objects, such as light or single atoms, over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.

But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter.

"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.

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.

 

[Ronny Shade]

awesome news if you want to teleport a single atom. What good des that do, you could even digitize an apple in Tron...and all we can do it teleport and atom? lame.









jk this is awesome

 

[War Lord]

awesome news if you want to teleport a single atom. What good des that do, you could even digitize an apple in Tron...and all we can do it teleport and atom? lame.









jk this is awesome

They didn't just do one atom. They transported trillions of them.

 

[Ronny Shade]

They didn't just do one atom. They transported trillions of them.

yeah I know it's awesome

 

[PWN3R]

Super Hiro!!!



WE DID IT!

 

[Space Moose]

Friggin' sweet!

 

[Ronny Shade]

Super Hiro!!!

I totally came up with that befpre Heroes did. I sorta knew this guy who lives on my block named Hiro and we called him that.

 

[Space Moose]

I totally came up with that befpre Heroes did. I sorta knew this guy who lives on my block named Hiro and we called him that.

You must be, like, a genius or something...

 

[PWN3R]

I totally came up with that befpre Heroes did. I sorta knew this guy who lives on my block named Hiro and we called him that.

I love just randomly screaming that.

SUPER HIROOOOO!:heart:

 

[Ronny Shade]

You must be, like, a genius or something...

or maybe I can bend space time and see the future

 

[Ronny Shade]

I love just randomly screaming that.

SUPER HIROOOOO!:heart:

That's what we used to do. He's walk by walking his dog and we'd be like Super Hiro! from the room upstairs. He probably hated it.

 

[Lackey]

I totally came up with that befpre Heroes did. I sorta knew this guy who lives on my block named Hiro and we called him that.

did you live in an all Asian neighborhood? because, you know, you're asian

 

[PWN3R]

That's what we used to do. He's walk by walking his dog and we'd be like Super Hiro! from the room upstairs. He probably hated it.

Geez than you are a genius.

 

[Space Moose]

or maybe I can bend space time and see the future

Maybe...

 

[black_dust]

Yes an army of flymen will soon be upon us!

 

[blksuperman2]

The future is upon us. Now to get to work on that holodeck.

 

[DV8]

man . . . just another 1000 years or so . . . .

 

[Lady Stormcrow]

Wow, technology is speeding along so quickly...'tis scary sometimes

 

[Holly Goodhead]

did you live in an all Asian neighborhood? because, you know, you're asian

Is that legal?

 

[JLBats]

Teleport to the far side of my ass

 

[Master Chief]

It'd be cool if everytime someone teleported, they didn't quite get it right. So every time somebody or something did it they'd lose a couple atoms here and there, lol, then eventually die.

 

[Cyrusbales]

They've teleported light before, and they can disassemble atoms and send they're data sorta thing, but they can't even begin to fathom the re-aranging....

 

[Arcturus]

Wait until teleporation inadvertently opens up the gates of hell, got your BFG 9000 near by?

 

[blksuperman2]

..... got your BFG 9000 near by?

Just ordered mine today. Will arrive in 2-3 weeks.

 

[Lady Stormcrow]

got your BFG 9000 near by?

Ah, the new prototype Big Friendly Giant.



sorry, couldnt resist t: