» Teleporting a Quantum State to Distant Matter
This month’s issue of Science carries news that physicists have succeeded in ‘teleporting’ matter over the distance of 1 meter through quantum entanglement. Although researchers were able to entangle photons successfully about 10 years ago, no one had succeeded in entangling full atoms before. In this experiment, two ytterbium ions were entangled such that the exact quantum state of one atom instantaneously transmitted to the other atom upon measurement.
I’ve long thought that quanutm entanglement is just about the strangest physical phenomena out there. It just boggles the mind. As Richard Feynman once said, ‘if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.’ Exactly.
