Quantum Internet Breakthrough

The reality of Quantum-computing moves a step closer as scientists’ teleport data between computer chips without electrical or physical contact for the very first time.

Quantum computers are considered the dream of modern physics as they could solve problems too difficult for even powerful supercomputers.

The problem is creating them requires learning how to manage elusive quantum particles smaller than atoms.

Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Technical University of Denmark created “chip-scale devices” able to utilize quantum physics to manipulate single particles of light.

In a breakthrough, researchers demonstrated the quantum teleportation of information between two programmable devices using a process known as quantum entanglement.

This is a when two or more particles have a similar state and a change in one means a change in another with the distance between the two irrelevant.

“We were able to demonstrate a high quality entanglement link across two chips in the lab, where photons on either chip share a single quantum state”

said researcher Dan Llewellyn.

The scientists were also able to create a more complex circuit of four sources with all of them nearly identical.

The team had a 91 percent success rate in teleporting the particles, a very solid result according to researchers.

This demonstration is the key to creating more complex devices, and ultimately, quantum communication systems and networks able to interact with conventional electronics.

The science journal Natural Physics has published the team’s findings.