{"id":90269,"date":"2019-05-04T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-have-finally-achieved-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication"},"modified":"2019-05-04T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T17:22:35","slug":"scientists-have-finally-achieved-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-have-finally-achieved-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Finally Achieved Direct Counterfactual Quantum Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOY0NbR1ppw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-teleportation-was-just-achieved-over-7-km-of-cable\">Quantum communication<\/a> is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication \u2014 a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23679694\">long proposed<\/a> that such a form of communication would be possible, but in 2017, for the first time, researchers were able to experimentally achieve it \u2014 transferring a black and white bitmap image from one location to another without sending any physical particles.<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds a little too out-there for you, don\u2019t worry, this is quantum mechanics, after all. It\u2019s meant to be complicated. But once you break it down, counterfactual quantum communication actually isn\u2019t as bizarre as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-finally-achieved-direct-counterfactual-quantum-communication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum communication is a strange beast, but one of the weirdest proposed forms of it is called counterfactual communication \u2014 a type of quantum communication where no particles travel between two recipients. Theoretical physicists have long proposed that such a form of communication would be possible, but in 2017, for the first time, researchers were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}