In the future, teleportation will replace all major modes of transport.
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Scientists are just beginning to suss out how to use the phenomenon to transfer information between the two entangled particles.
Maybe teleportation is a step too far - perhaps once again we are a victim of our own imaginations: just because you can think it, doesn’t mean you can or should do it. Most like to arrive in one piece after all.
Quantum teleportation is a demonstration of what Albert Einstein famously called "spooky action at a distance" also known as quantum entanglement. In entanglement, one of the basic of concepts of quantum physics. The properties of one particle affect the properties of another, even when the particles are separated by a large distance.
Quantum teleportation involves two distant, entangled particles in which the state of a third particle instantly "teleports" its state to the two entangled particles.
Quantum teleportation is an important means for transmitting information in quantum computing. While a typical computer consists of billions of transistors, called bits, quantum computers encode information in quantum bits, or qubits.
A bit has a single binary value, which can be either "0" or "1," but qubits can be both "0" and "1" at the same time. Qubits made from individual electrons, however, are also promising for transmitting information in semiconductors.
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The ability for individual qubits to simultaneously occupy multiple states underlies the great potential power of quantum computers.
"Individual electrons are promising qubits because they interact very easily with each other, and individual electron qubits in semiconductors are also scalable," Nichol says. "Reliably creating long-distance interactions between electrons is essential for quantum computing."
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