The practical application here is that the ability to maintain entanglement for a long period of time is key to building real quantum information networks.
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What you have to note is that in this sort of experiment the atom itself is not teleported, but rather the delicate quantum information contained in the atom.
Mr Vedral's professional interests lie in quantum computing and quantum information science, which use the laws of quantum mechanics respectively to build powerful computers and render codes unbreakable.
Their basic concept is to use light to transmit the quantum information using interferometers, which are instruments that change the frequency of light waves, then recombine them to get particular effects.
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While the new age of quantum information will augment our minds and bodies, possibly beyond recognition, the quality and content of our character will, for better or worse, remain our own.
This meant that they knew, within a window of 3 nanoseconds, when the quantum teleported information would arrive.
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The work of Dr Lloyd's group has prompted physicists to ask themselves what this quantum version of information transfer can do that a classical one cannot.
And while the jury remains out on the question of whether recent quantum leaps in information technology have boosted productivity or not, particularly in America, producers have moved on to think about where their next boost is going to come from.
It uses quantum waves to transfer information from one part of a nanoprocessor to another without relying on any physical connection.
Amazon knows that it will probably never be the very best site for rock-climbing information or quantum-physics discussions, but that the sites specialising in such subjects could be great places to sell books.
They also synchronized the clocks between the two information points using quantum entanglement.
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Quantum key distribution does this by encoding the information in the polarisation states of individual photons, the particles of light, which are sent from Alice to Bob over an optical fibre.
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But to exploit the fullest security allowed by the peculiar rules of quantum mechanics, each "bit" of information in the key should be encoded onto exactly one photon, sent through air or down a fibre.
The practical applications could improve the efficiency of quantum computers, where light is often used to transfer information.
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While not as overtly exciting or dramatic as the teleportation of an actual person, such quantum teleportation nonetheless has enormous implications for the world of computing both in terms of the amount of information that can be stored and the speed with which it can be moved around.
Now Vlatko Vedral, an Oxford physicist, examines the claim that bits of information are the universe's basic units, and the universe as a whole is a giant quantum computer.
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