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This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what's the point?
by junon 6y ago
This makes zero sense. If the information must be conveyed classically anyway, what's the point?
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoIt clearly makes no practical sense at the moment outside of research.
- lscharen 6y agoThere are quantum communication links for satellites that guarantee that the data streams are not tampered with. https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/q/quess https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missio... https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/quantum-drone https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/quant...
- foobiekr 6y agoLess "tampered with" (because they can be trivially blocked or corrupted) and more "uninspected."
- marcosdumay 6y agoThe point is to test physics models.
- tgb 6y agoIf you want to transmit 1 quantum bit (qubit), then you need to transmit 2 classical bits. Why is this useful? Because otherwise you have to carry the qubit over by hand. It's really just "quantum ethernet" not "quantum teleportation". There are actually other uses, too, about error tolerance, allowing you to quality-control some steps of the computation and repeat them if necessary without risking damaging the results of other steps.
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoPhysical qubits are much more sensitive to transmission noise than physical bits. If you want to transmit qubits, teleportation allows you to do it with higher fidelity than by physical transmission. Why do you want to transmit qubits? For various emerging quantum information technologies, each with different potential economic impact.
- pueblito 6y agoDoes this mean quantum gizmos will ‘teleport’ the data over space instead of using wires? Like, will a quantum processor pull the data in the quantum ram using teleportation?
- abdullahkhalids 6y agoWell, not that short range! We are talking about where you have to transmit the qubits at least a few dozen meters. So perhaps distributed quantum computers spread across a university, city or country. Also, remember, you still need wired or wireless transmission of bits to do the teleportation protocol.
- colechristensen 6y agoIt means quantum “networking” will be transmitted over classical communications channels.
- spurgu 6y agoThis simple explanation clicked for me, thank you!
- pontus 6y agoGreat question! This gets to the heart of why quantum teleportation has any value at all. So, before QM there was already a sense in which you could teleport an object: simply measure its state perfectly and send that information to another location and have them reconstruct that state particle by particle. In principle the new system would be indistinguishable from the original system and you could claim that you've teleported it. Now, with the discovery of quantum mechanics, this process no longer works because there is no way to measure the complete state of a quantum system. For example, you could measure the position of each particle to arbitrary accuracy or you can measure the speed of every particle to arbitrary position, but you can't do both (Heisenberg's uncertainty principle). So, it would seem like one could not construct a perfect replica of a quantum system in a new location by measuring its state in the original position. The cleverness of quantum teleportation is that you use entanglement to sort of short circuit this limitation. You let entanglement do the heavy lifting to sort of "copy" the state from one location to another and then perform a measurement in the original location to uncover just enough information so that the person in the second location can manipulate its system to reconstruct the original state. It's sort of like reconstructing the state without actually knowing what that state is. Now, an interesting side effect of the quantum version is that the first measurement of the original system is necessarily destructive. As such, it's not like you'll end up with two copies of the same thing (which is what would happen in the classical version) so there's no discussion necessary around the distinction between teleportation and cloning. Classically you'd be cloning the system but quantum mechanically you'd really truly be teleporting it (in fact, there's a result in quantum mechanics called "the no cloning theorem" that proves that cloning in QM is impossible).
- sebmellen 6y agoVery interesting. If I understand correctly, does this mean cloning is a functionally impossible task? I've always been entertained by the paradoxes where someone is teleported ala Michael Crichton's Timeline, and is then (due to some glitch) "duplicated", leading to interesting quandaries about "who is who". If Penrose is right about consciousness [0], this means all these fantastical paradoxes are just fantasy, right? [0]: https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/why-a-genius-scientist-thinks-our-consciousness-originates-at-the-quantum-level https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/why-a-genius-scientist-thin...
- ChrisLomont 6y agoSuperdense coding allows sending two bits of classical information by only sending one qubit physically. Ideally this will double transfer rates. And in any case it provides another "modality" for data communication, which may provide tradeoffs that have benefits in other directions. I'm pretty sure (haven't been in the field a while) that superdense coding the densest coding that one can gain using quantum entanglement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding
- 8note 6y agoSupposing we get enough qubits to support teleporting you, we can regularly entangle qubits and ship them around the world, then when you want to travel, we can teleport you, and the trip time will be how long it takes to send the message. This cuts your trip time down from hours long flights to seconds long trips
- roywiggins 6y agoIt might be easier just to destructively scan and reconstruct you classically and ignore the quantum stuff. If the person who steps out of the booth still thinks they're "you", problem solved, and without dealing with quantum states. How much do you care that your cells are all quantum-mechanically identical post-teleport? Not much!
- dheera 6y agoThe point is actually in even transferring an arbitrary quantum state from one quantum particle to another, and given an entangled pair existing in advance. Transferring a quantum state from one particle to another isn't an easy or obvious task, because you can't measure it or you would collapse it. Note that "classical" is just stating that a classical channel is good enough to serve that purpose. A channel that preserves quantum state can of course be used, it's just that that isn't required for this to work. All classical phenomena are quantum, we just use the word "classical" to describe subsets of quantum phenomena acting qualitatively in ways that are consistent with macroscopic phenomena.
- im3w1l 6y agoSuppose Alice and Bob have a pair of entangled particles. But Bob wants to give his part of the pair to Charlie. Quantum teleportation lets him do that over the phone.