Comment on Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 1 day agoThat sounds like complete garbage though, if those qbits are still in superposition then it hasn’t changed from being both 1 and 0. All that means is that nothing has really between the two points and the teleportation is theoretical.
knightly@pawb.social 1 day ago
It might be counterintuitive, but that’s genuinely how quantum systems work.
The entangled photons are in a state of quantum superposition until they are measured, and that measurement creates information about the state of both photons.
It’s not a process that can be used to transmit information, it’s a process that transmits identical random numbers to two places at once that can’t be intercepted without breaking either their identicalness.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I understand quantum entanglement is a real thing but in this article, you click on where it says quantum teleportation and it tells you what they do is use laser patterns and no mention of quantum entanglement, it just sounds like fiber optics minus the fibers.
knightly@pawb.social 1 day ago
To simplify, they’re not just entangling pairs of photons and sending them out to two systems, but entangling entire qubits that exist on separate systems. This teleports the state of a qubit from one system to another without collapsing its superposition, enabling the quantum equivalent of parallel processing.
ReanuKeeves@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Here’s an article directly from university of oxford regarding this
ox.ac.uk/…/2025-02-06-first-distributed-quantum-a…
They explicitly describe the process as using a photonic network interface. I don’t see how this is entanglement rather than optics/lasers