{"id":100339,"date":"2019-12-31T18:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T02:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/physicists-just-achieved-the-first-ever-quantum-teleportation-between-computer-chips"},"modified":"2019-12-31T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T02:24:39","slug":"physicists-just-achieved-the-first-ever-quantum-teleportation-between-computer-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/physicists-just-achieved-the-first-ever-quantum-teleportation-between-computer-chips","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Achieved The First-Ever Quantum Teleportation Between Computer Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-achieved-the-first-ever-quantum-teleportation-between-computer-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As 2019 winds to a close, the journey towards fully realised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-computers\">quantum computing<\/a> continues: physicists have been able to demonstrate quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, this breakthrough means that information was passed between the chips not by physical electronic connections, but through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\">quantum entanglement<\/a> \u2013 by linking two particles across a gap using the principles of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t yet understand everything about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/entanglement\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"quantum entanglement\">quantum entanglement<\/a> (it\u2019s the same phenomenon Albert Einstein famously called \u201cspooky action\u201d), but being able to use it to send information between computer chips is significant, even if so far we\u2019re confined to a tightly controlled lab environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2019 winds to a close, the journey towards fully realised quantum computing continues: physicists have been able to demonstrate quantum teleportation between two computer chips for the first time. Put simply, this breakthrough means that information was passed between the chips not by physical electronic connections, but through quantum entanglement \u2013 by linking two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100339","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}