Quantum Teleportation Successfully Done Over a 16km Distance

Quantum entanglement is like magic. Quantum entangled photos where separated for the first time more than just a few meters, achieving an 89% “information fidelity” over a 10 mile distance. This represents a new distance and fidelity record.

Arstechnica reports: “Quantum teleportation has achieved a new milestone or, should we say, a new ten-milestone: scientists have recently had success teleporting information between photons over a free space distance of nearly ten miles, an unprecedented length. The researchers who have accomplished this feat note that this brings us closer to communicating information without needing a traditional signal, and that the ten miles they have reached could span the distance between the surface of the earth and space.”

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