{"id":100171,"date":"2019-12-26T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T17:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/quantum-teleportation-reported-in-a-qutrit-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-12-26T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T17:24:52","slug":"quantum-teleportation-reported-in-a-qutrit-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/quantum-teleportation-reported-in-a-qutrit-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Teleportation Reported in a Qutrit For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-teleportation-reported-in-a-qutrit-for-the-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, we celebrated a first in the field of quantum physics: scientists were able to \u2018teleport\u2019 a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qutrit\">qutrit<\/a>, or a piece of quantum information based on three states, opening up a whole host of new possibilities for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum computing\">quantum computing<\/a> and communication.<\/p>\n<p>Up until then, quantum teleportation had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-teleportation-was-just-achieved-over-7-km-of-cable\">only been managed<\/a> with qubits, albeit over impressively long distances. This proof-of-concept study suggests future quantum networks will be able to carry much more data and with less interference than we thought.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re new to the idea of qutrits, first let\u2019s take a step back. Simply put, the small data units we know as bits in classical computing can be in one of two states: a 0 or a 1. But in quantum computing, we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/breaking-a-brand-new-type-of-qubit-has-been-unveiled-and-it-finally-makes-quantum-computers-scalable\">qubit<\/a>, which can be both a 0 and 1 at the same time (known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_superposition\">superposition<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, we celebrated a first in the field of quantum physics: scientists were able to \u2018teleport\u2019 a qutrit, or a piece of quantum information based on three states, opening up a whole host of new possibilities for quantum computing and communication. Up until then, quantum teleportation had only been managed with qubits, albeit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}