| | Teleporting Matter's Traits: Beaming information quantum-style: Science News Online, June 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | That feat of quantum teleportation, reported independently by teams in Austria and the United States in the June 17 Nature, moves scientists nearer to building a class of so-called quantum computers that's expected to be astonishingly speedy at certain tasks, such as scouring databases for specific information. |
 | | Starting in the early 1980s, physicists have realized that aspects of quantum mechanicsthe physics of minuscule specks of matter and energy such as atoms and photonscould be exploited to greatly improve some types of computing and communications. |
 | | By means of a choreographed sequence of laser pulses, the scientists in each group set the stage for teleportation by tweaking one of the three ions so that it would have a particular quantum state and by entangling the second and third ions. |
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