A study recently detailed how a team from the University of Oxford sent information remotely from one quantum processor to another. During the experiment, nothing was actually moved; the light particles (data) remained in the same place, separated by a distance of 2 meters.
Quantum has officially been achieved by scientists, which is exciting news, but probably not for the reasons you might think. Does not involve teleportation objects or people in the manner of “Star Trek”, but rather the sharing of data between two quantum computers.
Scientists have already have known for some time that it is possible to “teleport” information from one space to another through quantum entanglement instantly.
In a study published in February in the journal Nature, a team from the University of Oxford sent a quantum algorithm, remotely and wirelesslyfrom one quantum processor to another.
The goal was essentially to allow the two extremely powerful computers work together as a single supercomputer. — which gives them a power increase to solve problems that they would not otherwise be able to solve.
This feat was achieved using the instant information transfer through entanglement, or quantum entanglement.
This occurs when two particles, such as photons or electrons, remain linked or “entangled” even at great distances.
At the heart of this idea is the phenomenon of ““, a term coined by Albert Einstein to describe quantum entanglement.
This strange but fundamental principle of quantum mechanics suggests that “quantum interconnected particles”, who initially interactedthey can instantly influence each other’s propertiesregardless of the distance that separates them.
This phenomenon, which allows physicists to introduce changes in the characteristics of certain particles, causing the same changes, at a distancein particles that had previously interacted with the first ones, is the basis of quantum computing.
In the case of quantum computers, These particles are qubits — the basic unit that represents quantum information.
During the experiment, nothing was actually moved; the particles of light (data) remained in the same place while separated for a distance of two meters.
So, realistically, the teleportation in question is nothing like traditional teleportation conceptwhere matter is moved from one location to another, notes BGR.
Instead, quantum entanglement allows the two computers to see each other’s data, sharing that information instantly across enormous distances and pooling resources.
This advance will allow distributed quantum computingwhere multiple remote quantum processors can be combined into a single unified quantum computer. Thus, we will soon be able to see ridiculously powerful computers born. Very, very powerful.
