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Push-button teleportation

Two groups have succeeded in teleporting quantum states between different atoms — a spectacular advance in the quest to achieve quantum computation.

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Figure 1: Quantum teleportation, step by step.

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Kimble, H., van Enk, S. Push-button teleportation. Nature 429, 712–713 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/429712a

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