Is Instant Data Travel Possible Through Quantum Teleportation?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jonnyb42
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Data Travel
Jonnyb42
Messages
185
Reaction score
0
Instant Data Travel??

Ok so I just read something and I am utterly confused...

INSTANT data travel?

It had to do with quantum entanglement and quantum teleportation.
Is this stuff real?? I see the news on PhysOrg saying quantum teleportation of photon achieved at 16 km...

THIS IS CRAZY!

Can someone please tell me if there is something fishy behind this or if data travel can be instant, at ANY DISTANCES??

This is mind blowing,
 
Physics news on Phys.org


Quantum teleportation can NOT be used to transfer data faster than light. So no, you can't use if for "instant data travel".

(it is very unfortunate that the word "teleportation" is used to describe these experiments, no wonder most people don't understand what is actully being done)
 


haha, thanks. Quantum entanglement is very interesting still though.
I have much to learn!
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
Back
Top