A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic cable amid a torrent of internet traffic – a feat of engineering once considered impossible.
No, quantum teleportation is more akin to Star Trek teleportation whereby you disassemble the original object, transmit the information, then rebuild it using a different medium.
(More technically, you apply an operation to a qubit which is non-reversible so its original state is lost if it was not already known, but you gain enough information from this process to transmit it over a classical channel which the recipient can then use that information to apply operations to a qubit they have which places it in the same quantum state as the original qubit.)
The middle step here requires the transmission of information over a classical communication channel, and so it can't be used to send signals faster than light.
(I would go as far as to argue there is nothing nonlocal in quantum mechanics at all and the belief there is anything nonlocal is a misunderstanding. I wrote an article here on it that is more meant for laymen, and another article here that is more technical.)
There is a communication-related benefit to quantum teleportation, but not for superluminal communication. Let's say you have a qubit you want to transmit, but your quantum communication channel is very noisy. Using quantum teleportation will allow you to bypass it because you can transmit the information classically, and classical communication channels tend to be very robust to noise.
(The algorithm requires a Bell pair to be shared by the sender and receiver in order to carry it out, and so this might seem like it defeats the purpose of bypassing the quantum communication channel. However, you can establish a Bell pair over a noisy channel using a process known as quantum distillation.)
It’s a quirk of quantum mechanics that implies a possibility of superluminal communication but afaik most people think it probably can’t be used for that because of reasons that are more complicated than I care to understand .
That’s pretty much what I’ve gathered after one of the Xenosaga games made me aware of it.
No, quantum teleportation is more akin to Star Trek teleportation whereby you disassemble the original object, transmit the information, then rebuild it using a different medium.
(More technically, you apply an operation to a qubit which is non-reversible so its original state is lost if it was not already known, but you gain enough information from this process to transmit it over a classical channel which the recipient can then use that information to apply operations to a qubit they have which places it in the same quantum state as the original qubit.)
The middle step here requires the transmission of information over a classical communication channel, and so it can't be used to send signals faster than light.
(I would go as far as to argue there is nothing nonlocal in quantum mechanics at all and the belief there is anything nonlocal is a misunderstanding. I wrote an article here on it that is more meant for laymen, and another article here that is more technical.)
There is a communication-related benefit to quantum teleportation, but not for superluminal communication. Let's say you have a qubit you want to transmit, but your quantum communication channel is very noisy. Using quantum teleportation will allow you to bypass it because you can transmit the information classically, and classical communication channels tend to be very robust to noise.
(The algorithm requires a Bell pair to be shared by the sender and receiver in order to carry it out, and so this might seem like it defeats the purpose of bypassing the quantum communication channel. However, you can establish a Bell pair over a noisy channel using a process known as quantum distillation.)