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'beam Me Up, Data'
Researchers say their success in teleporting information between qubits in different computer chips is a key step toward the development of a quantum network for communication between quantum computers.
Credit: Delft University of Technology
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology's (TU Delft) Kavli Institute of Nanoscience say they have succeeded in teleporting information between qubits in different computer chips.
They say their breakthrough is a key step toward the development of a quantum network for communication between future ultra-fast quantum computers, which will be able to solve more important challenges than today's supercomputers. Moreover, the researchers say a quantum Internet will enable information transfer to be completely secure. The scientists involved in the project used entanglement to achieve teleportation.
The method is 100-percent guaranteed to work and has the potential to be 100-percent accurate, says TU Delft professor Ronald Hanson, who led the research effort.
The quantum bits were just three meters away from each other, but Hanson is planning to repeat the experiment this summer over a distance of 1,300 meters, with chips located in various buildings on campus. His group is striving to be the first to realize a 'loophole-free Bell test,' considered the Holy Grail within quantum mechanics.
From Delft University of Technology
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