{"id":30355,"date":"2016-09-20T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/calgary-researchers-teleport-light-particle-6-2-kilometres-raising-hopes-for-quantum-internet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:14:16","slug":"calgary-researchers-teleport-light-particle-6-2-kilometres-raising-hopes-for-quantum-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/calgary-researchers-teleport-light-particle-6-2-kilometres-raising-hopes-for-quantum-internet","title":{"rendered":"Calgary researchers teleport light particle 6.2 kilometres, raising hopes for \u2018quantum internet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/calgary-researchers-teleport-light-particle-6-2-kilometres-raising-hopes-for-quantum-internet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s article in Nature Photonics says the demonstration \u2018constitutes a milestone towards a global quantum internet,\u2019 as it is one of the longest distances over which quantum teleportation has been achieved using a fibre-optic network in this way.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a \u201cmajor step\u201d toward practical quantum networking, researchers at the University of Calgary have successfully demonstrated the teleportation of a light particle\u2019s properties between their lab and the city\u2019s downtown area, six kilometres away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is remarkable about this is that this information transfer happens in what we call a disembodied manner,\u201d said physics professor Wolfgang Tittel, whose team\u2019s work was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphoton\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nphoton.2016.180.html\">published<\/a> this week in the journal Nature Photonics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur transfer happens without any need for an object to move between these two particles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/calgary-teleportation-quantum-networking-city-hall-1.3770440\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/calgary\/calgary-teleportation-...-1.3770440<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team\u2019s article in Nature Photonics says the demonstration \u2018constitutes a milestone towards a global quantum internet,\u2019 as it is one of the longest distances over which quantum teleportation has been achieved using a fibre-optic network in this way. In a \u201cmajor step\u201d toward practical quantum networking, researchers at the University of Calgary have successfully [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66184,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355\/revisions\/66184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}