Re:Researchers quantum teleport particle of light six kilome...
by elboru on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:21PM
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Since nobody has mentioned it, maybe I didn't understand the implications, but does this mean there is a chance in the future we won't have "bandwidth"? I could replicate data from a server into my personal computer instantly?
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Re:Researchers quantum teleport particle of light six kilome...
by TheRealPomax on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:30PM
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Not really. Not unless you and whomever you were getting data from shared entangled particle pairs. While this is a real thing already, some banks use this setup for quantum encryption, it's probabilistic (particles can stop being entangled, so you have to run checks against a series of them and then decide that p>0.999 is good enough for instance) and the owners of each particle is regulated. There is no QT without first making sure two parties each hold half of an entangled pair, and then make sure they both use the same particle for running the QT algorithm against.