An international team of researchers has published their paper demonstrating quantum teleportation between two Canary Islands.

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According to the authors of the paper, the success of this setup means that the fundamental building blocks of large-scale quantum teleportation are now in place.

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And right now, quantum teleportation is an extremely delicate process.

FORBES: Physicists Quantum Teleport Photons Over 88 Miles

Looks like the quantum teleportation race is on!

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How is this "quantum teleportation" actually achieved?

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There is no scope for plots in which two copies of Kirk roam the universe until they meet in a dreadful epiphany: in quantum teleportation, the original copy of Kirk is destroyed by the very process of being entangled with the transporter.

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While not as overtly exciting or dramatic as the teleportation of an actual person, such quantum teleportation nonetheless has enormous implications for the world of computing both in terms of the amount of information that can be stored and the speed with which it can be moved around.

CNN: Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

And all this is done without looking at the photons and destroying their quantum states at least, not until after the teleportation.

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