While gamers busy themselves trying to unlock Portal 2 before its Tuesday release date, a research team at the University of Tokyo has been busy playing with actual portals.
By successfully teleporting wave packets of light from one place to another, the researchers are reportedly the first ever to transfer quantum information.
According to Elanor Huntington, a professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of New South Wales in Australia, creating such a portal “relies on having two things … One is the normal fibre optic internet or even copper cables, and the other is a shared resource between the sender and the receiver.”
She continues: “Superposition is exactly what underlies the power of things like quantum computers. You enable parallel processing because at the same time it’s a one and a zero. The point is … to teleport it from A to B without the one and the zero getting confused.”
I don't know if we should rejoice or panic.
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