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Quantum teleportation

Getting complicated

Teleportation of simple quantum states of light and matter has already been demonstrated in several experiments. Now the teleportation of continuous-variable states encoded in the collective spin of an atomic ensemble is also possible.

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Figure 1: The teleportation experiment.

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Matsukevich, D. Getting complicated. Nature Phys 9, 389–390 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2655

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