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Reliable teleportation

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Two complementary experiments have demonstrated deterministic quantum teleportation of quantum bits. The results could find applications in quantum communications and computing. See Letters p.315 & p.319

The ability to teleport quantum states from one place to another by means of classical communication systems is both counter-intuitive and potentially useful. However, experimental demonstrations of such quantum teleportation have tended to be hit-and-miss, with few successful attempts. Two studies in this issue now report deterministic quantum teleportation: one involves the teleportation of the quantum state of a single photon, by Takeda et al.1 (page 315); the other is teleportation of the quantum state of a superconducting circuit, by Steffen et al.2 (page 319).

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Figure 1: A quantum teleportation protocol.

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  1. Timothy C. Ralph is in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia.,

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