Advancement in 'Quantum Teleportation' , Could Be the Key to the , Network of the Future.
'The New York Times' reports that
scientists have successfully sent quantum
information across distant computers.
The accomplishment represents
a huge step toward developing
the networks of the future.
A team of physicists at the Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands used quantum teleportation
to send data across three physical locations.
Quantum teleportation,
what Einstein referred to as , “spooky action at a distance," , transfers information without moving
the physical matter that holds it.
'The New York Times' reports
that the process takes advantage
of a quantum property called "entanglement.".
Entanglement allows for a change in the state
of one quantum system to instantly affect
the state of another "entangled" quantum system.
After entanglement, you can no longer
describe these states individually.
Fundamentally, it is now one system, Tracy Eleanor Northup, a researcher at the University
of Innsbruck’s Institute for Experimental Physics,
via 'The New York Times'.
According to the team, when data travels this way, it cannot be lost or intercepted, as the information does not move from place to place.
With entangled quantum systems, that information simply exists in both places simultaneously. .
Information can be fed into
one side of the connection
and then appear on the other, Ronald Hanson, Physicist at the Delft University of Technology, via 'The New York Times'.
The team's research
was published in the
science journal 'Nature.'