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Article
Nature 390, 575-579 (11 December 1997) | doi:10.1038/37539; Received 16 October 1997; Accepted 18 November 1997
Experimental quantum teleportation
Dik Bouwmeester1, Jian-Wei Pan1, Klaus Mattle1, Manfred Eibl1, Harald Weinfurter1 & Anton Zeilinger1
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Correspondence to: Dik Bouwmeester1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to D.B. (e-mail: Email: Dik.Bouwmeester@uibk.ac.at).
Abstract
Quantum teleportation — the transmission and reconstruction over arbitrary distances of the state of a quantum system — is demonstrated experimentally. During teleportation, an initial photon which carries the polarization that is to be transferred and one of a pair of entangled photons are subjected to a measurement such that the second photon of the entangled pair acquires the polarization of the initial photon. This latter photon can be arbitrarily far away from the initial one. Quantum teleportation will be a critical ingredient for quantum computation networks.
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