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Quantum teleportation
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ABSTRACT
Teleportation is the name given by the science fiction writers to
the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while the
exact replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is
usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the
original object is scanned in such away as to extract all the information
from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and
used to construct the replica , not necessarily from the actual material of
the original, but perhaps from atoms of same kinds , arranged in exactly
the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would look like
a fax machine, except that it would work on both 3-dimensional objects
as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than
approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of
scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that
preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original
and teleported versions of same person meet; but the more common kind
of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation
device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.
INTRODUCTION

Ever since the wheel was invented more than 5,000 years ago,
people have been inventing new ways to travel faster from one point to
another. The chariot, bicycle, automobile, airplane and rocket have all
been invented to decrease the amount of time we spend getting to our
desired destinations. Yet each of these forms of transportation share the
same flaw: They require us to cross a physical distance, which can take
anywhere from minutes to many hours depending on the starting and
ending points. There are scientists working right now on such a method
of travel, combining properties of telecommunications and transportation
to achieve a system called teleportation.
Teleportation Technology is the 21st century alternative to travel.
It can save your organization time and money and enhance your internal
and external communication network.
Our systems are very simple to use. All you have to do is click to
connect and you can appear within a 3-dimensional setting in a chair or
behind a lectern on the other side of the world - almost instantly. Our
products are designed so that the technology is invisible. This means you
always concentrate on the person or people you are talking with and not
the technology.
Teleportec is developing a global network of teleportation
facilities, which will include most major world cities during 2002.
Organizations from across the world have been attracted by the
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immediate savings and improved communication that our technology
can bring to their organization.
For natural high quality, distance communication there is no
substitute. It really is the closest thing to being there. To find out how
Teleportec can revolutionize the way your organization communicates
and reduce your travel and expenses costs.
WHAT IS TELEPORTATION TECHNOLOGY?

The Teleportec communications system is unique and has been
designed to enable a life-size image of a person to appear within a 3D
environment. You can make eye contact with individuals, use props and
hold true two-way conversations - communicating naturally with anyone
or any group of people anywhere in the world, as you would if you were
there. After all 80% of communication is non-verbal. The only thing you
can't do is shake hand.
More advanced than video conferencing
Video conferencing has never presented itself as a realistic
alternative to face-to-face meetings because of its severe limitations -
only one person can speak at any one time creating an amplified feeling
of distance between participants. Teleportation allows a more natural
form of conversation due to the lack of latency - people achieve a sense
of presence that cannot be gained from any other technology.
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Proven technology

Teleportec has systems installed in cities across the world each
utilizing a range of connectivity options including ISDN, T1, and ATM
and over the Internet. Teleportec is currently developing applications for
the Internet 2 - the most advanced network in the world.

Helps

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communication
We would start with an analysis of how teleportation technology
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HISTORY

An experiment confirms that teleportation is possible at
least for photons.
Captain Kirk and his crew do it all the time with the greatest of
ease: they discorporate at one point and reappear at another. However,
this form of travel long has seemed remote to the realm of possibility.
Now, however, it turns out that in the strange world of quantum physics,
teleportation is not only theoretically possible, it can actually happen.
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One group of researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria
published an account of the first experiment to verify quantum
teleportation in the December 11 issue of Nature. In addition, another
team headed by Francesco De Martini in Rome has submitted similar
evidence to Physical Review Letters for publication. Neither group sent a
colleague to Katmandu or a car to the moon. Yet what they did prove is
still pretty startling. Anton Zeilinger, De
Martini and their colleagues demonstrated independently that it is
possible to transfer the properties of one quantum particle (such as a
photon) to another--even if the two are at opposite ends of the galaxy.
Until recently, physicists had all but ruled out teleportation, in
essence because all particles behave simultaneously like particles and
like waves. The trick was this: they presumed that to produce an exact
duplicate of any one particle, you would first have to determine both its
particle like properties, such as its position, and its wavelike properties,
such as its momentum. Yet doing so would violate the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Under that principle, it is
impossible to ever measure wave and particle properties at the same
time. The more you learn about one set of characteristics, the less you
can say about the other with any real certainty.
In 1993, though, an international team of six scientists proposed a
way to make an end-run around the uncertainty principle. Their solution
was based on a theorem of quantum mechanics dating to the 1930s
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called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect. It states that when two
particles come into contact with one another, they can become
"entangled". In an entangled state, both particles remain part of the same
quantum system so that whatever you do to lone of them affects the other
one in a predictable, domino-like fashion. Thus, the group showed how,
in principle, entangled particles might serve as "transporters" of sorts. By
introducing a third "message" particle to one of the entangled particles,
one could transfer its properties to the other one, without ever measuring
those properties.
Experimental proof

Bennett's ideas were not verified experimentally until the
Innsbruck investigators performed their recent experiment. The
researchers produced pairs of entangled photons and showed they could
transfer the polarization state from one photon to another.
Teleportation still has one glitch: In the fuzzy realm of quantum
mechanics, the result of the transfer is influenced by the receiver's
observation of it. (As soon as you look at, say, Bones, he will look like
something else.) Therefore, someone still has to tell the receiver that the
transformation has been made so that they can correctly interpret what
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they see. And this sort of communication cannot occur at faster-than-
light speeds. Even so, the scheme has definite applications in ultra fast
quantum computers and in utilizing quantum phenomena to ensure
secure data transmission.
ELECTRONS TRAVELING ONE BY ONE

Current in conventional electronic devices is considered a kind of
flowing river of electrons, in which the electrons are as uncountable as
molecules of water. Reduce the dimensions of the material, and the
energy of those electrons becomes quantized, or divided into discrete
increments. Still, the precise number of electrons defies calculation.
Now, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) in Boulder, Colo., researcher Mark Keller is building a system to
make ultra-accurate measurements of capacitance, a form of electrical
impedance, by precisely counting the number of electrons put on a
capacitor. The heart of Keller's creation is a circuit that can count some
100 million electrons, give or take just one. This tally, along with a
commensurate measurement of the voltage on the capacitor, will be used
to determine capacitance with extreme accuracy. Thus, the capacitor will
become a standard, useful to technological organizations for such
applications as calibrating sensitive measuring equipment.
Keller's system is an expanded version of the electron turnstile
invented in the late 1980s by researchers at Delft University in the
Netherlands and at the Saclay Center for Nuclear Research in France. In
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those days, the Delft and Saclay workers were trying to build an electron
counter that could be used as a standard for current, rather than
capacitance. Ultra-accurate electron counts are, in theory at least, useful
for setting a standard for either quantity.
The central part of the electron turnstile was an aluminum
electrode about one micron long and coated with aluminum oxide. This
bar was known as an island because it was isolated on each side by a
nonconductive junction connected to a metallic electrode, or "arm".
When a large voltage was applied across this device, between the two
arms, it behaved like a conventional resistor. However, at temperatures
of about one Kelvin and voltages of a few tenths of a millivolt, the
resistance increased dramatically. No current could flow through the
device because the electrons had insufficient energy to get past the
junctions and onto the island. Increasing the voltage to about one
millivolt, however, gave electrons just enough energy to tunnel from the
arm, across the junction and to the island.
To control the flow of electrons, the voltage was applied to the
island through a capacitor (not a standard capacitor but a high-quality but
otherwise ordinary capacitor). As the capacitor charged and discharged,
the voltage increased and decreased, forcing one electron onto, and then
off, the central island. An alternating current, fed to the capacitor,
controlled the charging and discharging; thus, the frequency of the
alternating current determined the rate at which individual electrons
passed through the island. The concept was elegant, but the
implementation fell short of the mark. The Delft and Saclay workers
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were able to get accuracies of one electron in about 1,000. For them to
top the existing standard for current, precision of better than one in 10
million would have been necessary. The problem with this single-island
setup was that occasionally two electrons, or none at all, would pass
through the island during a cycle of the alternating current. Moreover,
current flow through the turnstile, at about a Pico ampere
(0.000000000001 ampere) was too low for useful metrology.
In the early 1990s researcher John Martinis of NIST noticed the
work but did so in hopes of producing a standard for capacitance rather
than for current. Shortly before, the Saclay researchers had expanded
their electron turnstile into an electron "pump," with two islands and
three junctions. Martinis then built a pump with four islands separated by
five nonconductive junctions. The numbers were chosen because
theoretical calculations based on the physics of tunneling had indicated
that they would suffice to achieve an accuracy of one part in 100 million,
the figure needed to create a competitive standard for capacitance.
In these pumps, alternating current fed to a capacitor still
controlled the voltage applied to each island. But these currents were
synchronized so that the voltages were applied sequentially down the
chain of islands, in effect dragging a single electron through the chain
from island to island. When incorporated into a capacitance standard,
sometime in the near future, the circuit will be arranged so that the
electrons that go through the chain of islands will wind up on a standard
capacitor. Thus, the number of cycles of the alternating current will
determine the number of electrons on that standard capacitor.
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By offering electrical control over each of the junctions, the
electron pump turned out to be considerably more accurate than the
electron turnstile. Yet, the sought-after accuracy of one part in 100
million was still out of reach. In a paper published in 1994, Martinis
reported that he had achieved accuracy of five parts in 10 million.
Researchers were unsure why the accuracy fell short of the theoretical
prediction.
Along came Mark Keller, who joined NIST as a postdoctoral
employee in 1995. Keller extended the electron pump to seven islands
and, just recently, achieved the desired accuracy of one part in 100
million. He is now working to turn the circuit into a practical capacitance
standard, using a special capacitor developed by NIST's Neil
Zimmerman. The capacitor does not "leak" charges and is unusually
insensitive to frequency.
With the metrological goal achieved, Keller and Martinis have
turned their attention to the nagging mismatch between experiment and
theory. They believe they have identified an important source of error,
unacknowledged in the original theory. The error, they suspect, is caused
by electromagnetic energy from outside the pump, which gets in and
causes electrons to go through junctions when they should not. The two
researchers are now conducting painstaking measurements to test the
idea. Sometimes, it would appear, good science comes out of
technology, rather than the other way around.
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QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING

In 1993, Charles Bennett (IBM, TJ Watson Research Center) and
colleagues theoretically developed a method for quantum teleportation.
Now, a team of physicists from Caltech, Aarhus University, and Dr. Sam
Braunstein of the University of Wales, Bangor has successfully achieved
quantum teleportation of optical coherent states.
Quantum teleportation is similar to the far-fetched 'transporter'
technology used in the television series 'Star Trek'. "Quantum
teleportation involves the utter destruction of an unknown physical entity
and its reconstruction at a remote location," says Professor H. Jeff
Kimble, the leader of the research group at Caltech, who with Braunstein
conceived the experiment. Using a phenomenon known as 'quantum
entanglement', the researchers force a photon of light to project its
unknown state onto another photon, with only a miniscule amount of
information being sent between the two. This is the first time quantum
teleportation has been performed with a high degree of 'fidelity', which
means that the output reproduces the input with good accuracy. Quantum
teleportation was announced earlier last year by two independent labs in
Europe, but the low-fidelity results achieved in these experiments could
also be explained away by standard (classical) optics, without invoking
teleportation at all. There has been much progress in the field, but not an
actual demonstration until now.
In the October 23 1998 issue of Science, the physicists described
how they used squeezed-state entanglement to teleport light. In previous
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teleportation experiments (announced over the last year by separate
research groups in Austria and Rome), only two-dimensional discrete
variables (e.g. the polarization states of a photon, or the discrete levels of
a two-level atom) were teleported. In this recent experiment, however,
every state, or the entire quadrature phase amplitude, of the light beam
was teleported. In the Science article, the researchers explain that
teleporting optical fields may someday be appropriate for the use in
communication technology.
QUANTUM TELEPORTATION
Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the
feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a
perfect replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is
usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the
original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information
from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and
used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of
the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in
exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would
be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional
objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than
an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the
process of scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters
that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the
original and teleported versions of the same person meet; but the more
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common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super
transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.
Until recently, teleportation was not taken seriously by scientists,
because it was thought to violate the uncertainty principle of quantum
mechanics, which forbids any measuring or scanning process from
extracting all the information in an atom or other object. According to
the uncertainty principle, the more accurately an object is scanned, the
more it is disturbed by the scanning process, until one reaches a point
where the object's original state has been completely disrupted, still
without having extracted enough information to make a perfect replica.
This sounds like a solid argument against teleportation: if one cannot
extract enough information from an object to make a perfect copy, it
would seem that a perfect copy cannot be made.
But the six scientists found a way to make an end-run around this
logic, using a celebrated and paradoxical feature of quantum mechanics
known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect. In brief, they found a way
to scan out part of the information from an object A, which one wishes to
teleport, while causing the remaining, unscanned, part of the information
to pass, via the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect, into another object C
which has never been in contact with A. Later, by applying to C a
treatment depending on the scanned-out information, it is possible to
maneuver C into exactly the same state as A was in before it was
scanned. A itself is no longer in that state, having been thoroughly
disrupted by the scanning, so what has been achieved is teleportation, not
replication.
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As the figure suggests, the unscanned part of the information is
conveyed from A to C by an intermediary object B, which interacts first
with C and then with A. What? Can it really be correct to say "first with
C and then with A"? Surely, in order to convey something from A to C,
the delivery vehicle must visit A before C, not the other way around. But
there is a subtle, unscannable kind of information that, unlike any
material cargo, and even unlike ordinary information, can indeed be
delivered in such a backward fashion. This subtle kind of information,

also

called

"Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen

(EPR)

correlation"

or

"entanglement", has been at least partly understood since the 1930s when
it was discussed in a famous paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky,
and Nathan Rosen. In the 1960s, John Bell showed that a pair of
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entangled particles, which were once in contact but later move too far
apart to interact directly, can exhibit individually random behavior that is
too strongly correlated to be explained by classical statistics.
Experiments on photons and other particles have repeatedly confirmed
these correlations, thereby providing strong evidence for the validity of
quantum mechanics, which neatly explains them.
Another well-known fact about EPR correlations is that they
cannot by themselves deliver a meaningful and controllable message. It
was thought that their only usefulness was in proving the validity of
quantum mechanics. Now it is known that, through the phenomenon of
quantum teleportation, they can deliver exactly that part of the
information in an object, which is too delicate to be scanned out, and
delivered by conventional methods.
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This figure compares conventional facsimile transmission with

quantum

teleportation

(see

above).

In

conventional

facsimile

transmission, the original is scanned, extracting partial information about
it, but remains more or less intact after the scanning process. The
scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where it is imprinted
on some raw material (eg paper) to produce an approximate copy of the
original. In quantum teleportation, two objects B and C are first brought
into contact and then separated. Object B is taken to the sending station,
while object C is taken to the receiving station. At the sending station
object B is scanned together with the original object A which one wishes
to teleport, yielding some information and totally disrupting the state of
A and B. The scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where
it is used to select one of several treatments to be applied to object C,
thereby putting C into an exact replica of the former state of A.
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THE INNSBRUCK EXPERIMENT
IMAGE DEPICTS the University of Innsbruck experimental setup
for quantum teleportation. In the quantum teleportation process,
physicists take a photon (or any other quantum-scale particle, such as an
electron or an atom) and transfer its properties (such as its polarization,
the direction in which its electric field vibrates) to another photon--even
if the two photons are at remote locations. The scheme does not teleport
the photon itself; only its properties are imparted to another, remote
photon.
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Here is how it works: At the sending station of the quantum
teleporter, Alice encodes a "messenger" photon (M) with a specific state:
45 degrees polarization. This travels towards a beamsplitter. Meanwhile,
two additional "entangled" photons (A and B) are created. The
polarization of each photon is in a fuzzy, undetermined state, yet the two
photons have a precisely defined interrelationship. Specifically, they
must have complementary polarizations. For example, if photon A is
later measured to have horizontal (0 degrees) polarization, then the other
photon must "collapse" into the complementary state of vertical (90
degrees) polarization.
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Entangled photon A arrives at the beamsplitter at the same time as
the message photon M. The beamsplitter causes each photon to either
continue toward detector 1 or change course and travel to detector 2. In
25% of all cases, in which the two photons go off into different
detectors, Alice does not know which photon went to which detector.
This inability for Alice to distinguish between the two photons causes
quantum weirdness to kick in. Just by the very fact that the two photons
are now indistinguishable, the M photon loses its original identity and
becomes entangled with A. The polarization value for each photon is
now indeterminate, but since they, travel toward different detectors Alice
knows that the two photons must have complementary polarizations.
Since message photon M must have complementary polarization
to photon A, then the other entangled photon (B) must now attain the
same polarization value as M. Therefore, teleportation is successful.
Indeed, Bob sees that the polarization value of photon B is 45 degrees:
the initial value of the message photon.
PHOTON EXPERIMENTS

In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology
(Caltech), along with two European groups, turned the IBM ideas into
reality by successfully teleporting a photon, a particle of energy that
carries light. The Caltech group was able to read the atomic structure of
a photon, send this information across 1 meter (3.28 feet) of coaxial
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cable and create a replica of the photon. As predicted, the original
photon no longer existed once the replica was made.
In performing the experiment, the Caltech group was able to get
around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the main barrier for
teleportation of objects larger than a photon. This principle states that
you cannot simultaneously know the location and the speed of a particle.
But if you can't know the position of a particle, then how can you
teleport it? In order to teleport a photon without violating the Heisenberg
Principle, the Caltech physicists used a phenomenon known as
entanglement. In entanglement, at least three photons are needed to
achieve quantum teleportation:
Photon A: The photon to be teleported
Photon B: The transporting photon
Photon C: The photon that is entangled with photon B
If researchers tried to look too closely at photon A without
entanglement, they would bump it, and thereby change it. By entangling
photons B and C, researchers can extract some information about photon
A, and the remaining information would be passed on to B by way of
entanglement, and then on to photon C. When researchers apply the
information from photon A to photon C, they can create an exact replica
of photon A. However, photon A no longer exists as it did before the
information was sent to photon C.
In other words, when Captain Kirk beams down to an alien planet,
an analysis of his atomic structure is passed through the transporter room
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to his desired location, where a replica of Kirk is created and the original
is destroyed.
A more recent teleportation success was achieved at the Australian
National University, when researchers successfully teleported a laser
beam.
While the idea of creating replicas of objects and destroying the
originals doesn't sound too inviting for humans, quantum teleportation
does hold promise for quantum computing. These experiments with
photons are important in developing networks that can distribute
quantum information. Professor Samuel Braunstein, of the University
of Wales, Bangor, called such a network a "quantum Internet." This
technology may be used one day to build a quantum computer that has
data transmission rates many times faster than today's most powerful
computers.

POLARIZATION

ANALYSIS

OF

THE

TELEPORTED PHOTON
The data shows the polarization of the teleported photon as a
function of the delay between the arrival of photon 1 and 2 at Alice s
beamsplitter (when translating the retroflecting UV-mirror). Only around
zero delay, interference occurs and allows registration of a Bell-state.
The polarization of photon 3 is analyzed if detector p has indicated that
there is a photon to be teleported and if Alice s Bell-state analyzer has

registered the state

. Photon 3 shows the polarization defined by the

polarizer acting on photon 1.
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The polarization, without any background subtraction, is
70% 3%. The results for the two non-orthogonal states (45 and 90 )
prove teleportation of the quantum state of a single photon.
HUMAN TELEPORTATION
We are years away from the development of a teleportation
machine like the transporter room on Star Trek's Enterprise spaceship.
The laws of physics may even make it impossible to create a transporter
that enables a person to be sent instantaneously to another location,
which would require travel at the speed of light.
For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built
that can pinpoint and analyze all of the 1028 atoms that make up the
human body. That's more than a trillion atoms. This machine would then
have to send this information to another location, where the person's
body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be
even a millimeter out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe
neurological or physiological defect.
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In the Star Trek episodes, and the spin-off series that followed it,
teleportation was performed by a machine called a transporter. This was
a platform that the characters stood on, while Scotty adjusted switches
on the transporter room control boards. The transporter machine then
locked onto each atom of each person on the platform, and used a
transporter carrier wave to transmit those molecules to wherever the
crew wanted to go. Viewers watching at home witnessed Captain Kirk
and his crew dissolving into a shiny glitter before disappearing,
rematerializing instantly on some distant planet.
If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely that the person being
transported would actually be "transported." It would work more like a
fax machine a duplicate of the person would be made at the receiving
end, but with much greater precision than a fax machine. But what
would happen to the original? One theory suggests that teleportation
would combine genetic cloning with digitization.
In this biodigital cloning, tele-travelers would have to die, in a
sense. Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their
atomic structure would be recreated in another location, and digitization
would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions, hopes and dreams. So
the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the
same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same
information.
But like all technologies, scientists are sure to continue to improve
upon the ideas of teleportation, to the point that we may one day be able
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to avoid such harsh methods. One day, one of your descendents could
finish up a work day at a space office above some far away planet in a
galaxy many light years from Earth, tell his or her wristwatch that it's
time to beam home for dinner on planet X below and sit down at the
dinner table as soon as the words leave his mouth.
ADVANTAGES
Teleportation Technology is now being used by organizations
across the world to enable people to be in two (or more) places at once.

These

organizations

have

recognized

the

substantial

communication benefits of the technology:.
Genuine eye-to-eye contact with individuals or audiences in the
distant location, which means you, can make that personal
connection count wherever you are.
The quality of the communication means that you are able to
see and respond to the mood and body language of the person
you are speaking with to build trust and understanding.
There is natural two-way communication with no audio
interference or discernable latency even if the communication
is across twelve time zones.
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You can take control of PowerPoint and other presentation
material, which would be seen by the audience instantly - in
real time as you are talking.
With access to the Teleportec Global Network you just "click
to connect" with any of the Teleportec facilities across the EU,
North America and Australasia via our Operating System.
The financial benefits are significant too.
Substantial savings in travel and accommodation costs
Less non productive travel time means more efficient use of
your valuable human resources
No expensive training required - The technology is very easy to
use
You can be there when travel is impossible.
Improved productivity by leverage of knowledge and better use
of time: "neatness and order are not what we are after. We are
after getting information to people who can act on it." Jack
Welsh, CEO General Electric.
CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE (CONCLUSION)
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Teleportation technology is fast becoming an integral part of the
classroom of the future. The UK Government in its latest Education
Excellence in Cities Newsletter makes it clear that the technology "opens
the way for innovation and new ways of teaching and learning". Over the
past twelve months, Teleportec has been working with educational
establishments across the world in the development of a global network
of institutions. The vision of being able to teleport people into the
classroom for history lessons and cultural exchange is now being
realized. Schools in Salford, Greater Manchester in the UK and Texas in
the USA are using the technology to share knowledge and experiences
on a weekly basis. Schools in mainland Europe and Australia are also
getting involved. Justin Wilson, Director of Salford's City Learning
Center believes that "the use of the technology will be an important
motivational tool for gifted and talented pupils"
In October, systems were installed at schools in Padre Island,
Texas as an emergency measure when the bridge linking it to the
mainland was destroyed. Since then, a large part of the curriculum has
been delivered virtually. Teleportec are planning a series of global events
for education over the coming months. Please contact Teleportec for
further information. The cost of this equipment is nearest 35 lacks.
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REFERENCES

C.H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crepeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W.
Wootters, "Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual
Classical and EPR
Channels", Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 70, pp 1895-1899 (1993) (the
original 6-author research article).
Tony Sudbury, "Instant Teleportation", Nature vol.362, pp 586-
587 (1993) (a semi popular account).
Ivars Peterson, Science News, April 10, 1993, p. 229. (another
semi popular account).
Samuel Braunstein, A fun talk on teleportation
For recent experimental and theoretical papers, do a title search on
"teleportation" in the Los Alamos E-print Archive [IBM Research
Quantum Information
Introduction
What is teleportation technology
History
Electrons travel one by one
Quantum Information Processing
Quantum teleportation
The Innsbruck experiment
Photon experiment
Polarization analysis of the teleported photon
Human teleportation
Advantages
Conclusion
References
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ABSTRACT
Teleportation is the name given by the science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while the exact replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such away as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would look like a fax machine, except that it would work on both 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original and teleported versions of same person meet; but the more common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction 04
2. What is teleportation technology 05
3. History 06
4. Electrons travel one by one 08
5. Quantum Information Processing 11
6. Quantum teleportation 12
7. The Innsbruck experiment 16
8. Photon experiment 18
9. Polarization analysis of the teleported photon 20
10. Human teleportation 21
11. Advantages 23
12. Conclusion 24
13. References 25


INTRODUCTION
Ever since the wheel was invented more than 5,000 years ago, people have been inventing new ways to travel faster from one point to another. The chariot, bicycle, automobile, airplane and rocket have all been invented to decrease the amount of time we spend getting to our desired destinations. Yet each of these forms of transportation shares the same flaw: They require us to cross a physical distance, which can take anywhere, from minutes to many hours depending on the starting and ending points. There are scientists working right now on such a method of travel, combining properties of telecommunications and transportation to achieve a system called teleportation.
Teleportation Technology is the 21st century alternative to travel. It can save your organization time and money and enhance your internal and external communication network.
These systems are very simple to use. All you have to do is click to connect and you can appear within a 3-dimensional setting in a chair or behind a lectern on the other side of the world - almost instantly. The products are designed so that the technology is invisible. This means you always concentrate on the person or people you are talking with and not the technology.
Teleportec is developing a global network of teleportation facilities, which will include most major world cities during 2007. Organizations from across the world have been attracted by the immediate savings and improved communication that our technology can bring to their organization.
For natural high quality, distance communication there is no substitute. It really is the closest thing to being there. To find out how Teleportec can revolutionize the way your organization communicates and reduce your travel and expenses costs.

WHAT IS TELEPORTATION TECHNOLOGY

The Teleportec communications system is unique and has been designed to enable a life-size image of a person to appear within a 3D environment. You can make eye contact with individuals, use props and hold true two-way conversations - communicating naturally with anyone or any group of people anywhere in the world, as you would if you were there. After all 80% of communication is non-verbal. The only thing you can't do is shake hands.
MORE ADVANCED THAN VIDEO CONFERENCING

Video conferencing has never presented itself as a realistic alternative to face-to-face meetings because of its severe limitations - only one person can speak at any one time creating an amplified feeling of distance between participants. Teleportation allows a more natural form of conversation due to the lack of latency - people achieve a sense of presence that cannot be gained from any other technology.
PROVEN TECHNOLOGY

Teleportec has systems installed in cities across the world each utilizing a range of connectivity options including ISDN, T1, and ATM and over the Internet. Teleportec is currently developing applications for the Internet 2 - the most advanced network in the world.
HELPS YOUR BUSINESS SAVE MONEY AND IMPROVE COMMUNICATION
We would start with an analysis of how teleportation technology could improve your business communication. Our team will install the custom systems and commission the teleportation technologies. Ongoing operational support will be provided in over 50 countries through our strategic partners.
HISTORY
An experiment confirms that teleportation is possible at least for photons.
Captain Kirk and his crew do it all the time with the greatest of ease: they discorporate at one point and reappear at another. However, this form of travel long has seemed remote to the realm of possibility. Now, however, it turns out that in the strange world of quantum physics, teleportation is not only theoretically possible, it can actually happen.
One group of researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria published an account of the first experiment to verify quantum teleportation in the December 11 issue of Nature. In addition, another team headed by Francesco De Martini in Rome has submitted similar evidence to Physical Review Letters for publication. Neither group sent a colleague to Katmandu or a car to the moon. Yet what they did prove is still pretty startling. Anton Zeilinger De Martini and their colleagues demonstrated independently that it is possible to transfer the properties of one quantum particle (such as a photon) to another--even if the two are at opposite ends of the galaxy.
Until recently, physicists had all but ruled out teleportation, in essence because all particles behave simultaneously like particles and like waves. The trick was this: they presumed that to produce an exact duplicate of any one particle, you would first have to determine both its particle like properties, such as its position, and its wavelike properties, such as its momentum. Yet doing so would violate the Heisenberg uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. Under that principle, it is impossible to ever measure wave and particle properties at the same time. The more you learn about one set of characteristics, the less you can say about the other with any real certainty.
In 1993, though, an international team of six scientists proposed a way to make an end-run around the uncertainty principle. Their solution was based on a theorem of quantum mechanics dating to the 1930s called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect. It states that when two particles come into contact with one another, they can become "entangled". In an entangled state, both particles remain part of the same quantum system so that whatever you do to one of them affects the other one in a predictable, domino-like fashion. Thus, the group showed how, in principle, entangled particles might serve as "transporters" of sorts. By introducing a third "message" particle to one of the entangled particles, one could transfer its properties to the other one, without ever measuring those properties.
Experimental proof
Bennett's ideas were not verified experimentally until the Innsbruck investigators performed their recent experiment.The researchers produced pairs of entangled photons and showed they could transfer the polarization state from one photon to another.
Teleportation still has one glitch: In the fuzzy realm of quantum mechanics, the result of the transfer is influenced by the receiver's observation of it. (As soon as you look at, say, Bones, it will look like something else.) Therefore, someone still has to tell the receiver that the transformation has been made so that they can correctly interpret what they see. And this sort of communication cannot occur at faster-than-light speeds. Even so, the scheme has definite applications in ultra fast quantum computers and in utilizing quantum phenomena to ensure secure data transmission.
ELECTRONS TRAVELING ONE BY ONE
Current in conventional electronic devices is considered a kind of flowing river of electrons, in which the electrons are as uncountable as molecules of water. Reduce the dimensions of the material, and the energy of those electrons becomes quantized, or divided into discrete increments. Still, the precise number of electrons defies calculation.
Now, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., researcher Mark Keller is building a system to make ultra-accurate measurements of capacitance, a form of electrical impedance, by precisely counting the number of electrons put on a capacitor. The heart of Keller's creation is a circuit that can count to about 100 million electrons, give or take just one. This tally, along with a commensurate measurement of the voltage on the capacitor, will be used to determine capacitance with extreme accuracy. Thus, the capacitor will become a standard, useful to technological organizations for such applications as calibrating sensitive measuring equipment.
Keller's system is an expanded version of the electron turnstile invented in the late 1980s by researchers at Delft University in the Netherlands and at the Saclay Center for Nuclear Research in France. In those days, the Delft and Saclay workers were trying to build an electron counter that could be used as a standard for current, rather than capacitance. Ultra-accurate electron counts are, in theory at least, useful for setting a standard for either quantity.
The central part of the electron turnstile was an aluminum electrode, about one micron long and coated with aluminum oxide. This bar was known as an island because it was isolated on each side by a nonconductive junction connected to a metallic electrode, or "arm". When a large voltage was applied across this device, between the two arms, it behaved like a conventional resistor. However, at temperatures of about one Kelvin and voltages of a few tenths of a millivolt, the resistance increased dramatically. No current could flow through the device because the electrons had insufficient energy to get past the junctions and onto the island. Increasing the voltage to about one millivolt, however, gave electrons just enough energy to tunnel from the arm, across the junction and to the island.
To control the flow of electrons, the voltage was applied to the island through a capacitor (not a standard capacitor but a high-quality but otherwise ordinary capacitor). As the capacitor charged and discharged, the voltage increased and decreased, forcing one electron onto, and then off, the central island. An alternating current, fed to the capacitor, controlled the charging and discharging; thus, the frequency of the alternating current determined the rate at which individual electrons passed through the island. The concept was elegant, but the implementation fell short of the mark. The Delft and Saclay workers were able to get accuracies of one electron in about 1,000. For them to top the existing standard for current,a precision of better than one in 10 million would have been necessary. The problem with this single-island setup was that occasionally two electrons, or none at all, would pass through the island during a cycle of the alternating current. Moreover, current flow through the turnstile, at about a Pico ampere (0.000000000001 ampere) was too low for useful metrology.
In the early 1990s researcher, John Martinis of NIST noticed the work but did so in hopes of producing a standard for capacitance rather than for current. Shortly before, the Saclay researchers had expanded their electron turnstile into an electron "pump," with two islands and three junctions. Martinis then built a pump with four islands separated by five nonconductive junctions. The numbers were chosen because theoretical calculations based on the physics of tunneling had indicated that they would suffice to achieve an accuracy of one part in 100 million, the figure needed to create a competitive standard for capacitance.
In these pumps, alternating current fed to a capacitor still controlled the voltage applied to each island. But these currents were synchronized so that the voltages were applied sequentially down the chain of islands, in effect dragging a single electron through the chain from island to island. When incorporated into a capacitance standard, sometime in the near future, the circuit will be arranged so that the electrons that go through the chain of islands will wind up on a standard capacitor. Thus, the number of cycles of the alternating current will determine the number of electrons on that standard capacitor.
By offering electrical control over each of the junctions, the electron pump turned out to be considerably more accurate than the electron turnstile. Yet, the sought-after accuracy of one part in 100 million was still out of reach. In a paper published in 1994, Martinis reported that he had achieved accuracy of five parts in 10 million. Researchers were unsure why the accuracy fell short of the theoretical prediction.
Along came Mark Keller, who joined NIST as a postdoctoral employee in 1995. Keller extended the electron pump to seven islands and, just recently, achieved the desired accuracy of one part in 100 million. He is now working to turn the circuit into a practical capacitance standard, using a special capacitor developed by NIST's Neil Zimmerman. The capacitor does not "leak" charges and is unusually insensitive to frequency.
With the metrological goal achieved, Keller and Martinis have turned their attention to the nagging mismatch between experiment and theory. They believe they have identified an important source of error, unacknowledged in the original theory. The error, they suspect, is caused by electromagnetic energy from outside the pump, which gets in and causes electrons to go through junctions when they should not. The two researchers are now conducting painstaking measurements to test the idea. Sometimes, it would appear, good science comes out of technology, rather than the other way around.
QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING
In 1993, Charles Bennett (IBM, TJ Watson Research Center) and colleagues theoretically developed a method for quantum teleportation. Now, a team of physicists from Caltech, Aarhus University, and Dr. Sam Braunstein of the University of Wales, Bangor has successfully achieved quantum teleportation of optical coherent states.
Quantum teleportation is similar to the far-fetched 'transporter' technology used in the television series 'Star Trek'. "Quantum teleportation involves the utter destruction of an unknown physical entity and its reconstruction at a remote location," says Professor H. Jeff Kimble, the leader of the research group at Caltech, who with Braunstein conceived the experiment. Using a phenomenon known as 'quantum entanglement', the researchers force a photon of light to project its unknown state onto another photon, with only a miniscule amount of information being sent between the two. This is the first time quantum teleportation has been performed with a high degree of 'fidelity', which means that the output reproduces the input with good accuracy. Quantum teleportation was announced earlier last year by two independent labs in Europe, but the low-fidelity results achieved in these experiments could also be explained away by standard (classical) optics, without invoking teleportation at all. There has been much progress in the field, but not an actual demonstration until now.
In the October 23 1998 issue of Science, the physicists described how they used squeezed-state entanglement to teleport light. In previous teleportation experiments (announced over the last year by separate research groups in Austria and Rome), only two-dimensional discrete variables (e.g. the polarization states of a photon, or the discrete levels of a two-level atom) were teleported. In this recent experiment, however, every state, or the entire quadrature phase amplitude, of the light beam was teleported. In the Science article, the researchers explain that teleporting optical fields may someday be appropriate for the use in communication technology.
QUANTUM TELEPORTATION
Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. A few science fiction writers consider teleporters that preserve the original, and the plot gets complicated when the original and teleported versions of the same person meet; but the more common kind of teleporter destroys the original, functioning as a super transportation device, not as a perfect replicator of souls and bodies.
Until recently, teleportation was not taken seriously by scientists, because it was thought to violate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, which forbids any measuring or scanning process from extracting all the information in an atom or other object. According to the uncertainty principle, the more accurately an object is scanned, the more it is disturbed by the scanning process, until one reaches a point where the object's original state has been completely disrupted, still without having extracted enough information to make a perfect replica. This sounds like a solid argument against teleportation: if one cannot extract enough information from an object to make a perfect copy, it would seem that a perfect copy cannot be made.
But the six scientists found a way to make an end-run around this logic, using a celebrated and paradoxical feature of quantum mechanics known as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect. In brief, they found a way to scan out part of the information from an object A, which one wishes to teleport, while causing the remaining, unscanned, part of the information to pass, via the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen effect, into another object C which has never been in contact with A. Later, by applying to C a treatment depending on the scanned-out information, it is possible to maneuver C into exactly the same state as A was in before it was scanned. A itself is no longer in that state, having been thoroughly disrupted by the scanning, so what has been achieved is teleportation, not replication.
As the figure suggests, the unscanned part of the information is conveyed from A to C by an intermediary object B, which interacts first with C and then with A. What Can it really be correct to say "first with C and then with A" Surely, in order to convey something from A to C, the delivery vehicle must visit A before C, not the other way around. But there is a subtle, unscannable kind of information that, unlike any material cargo, and even unlike ordinary information, can indeed be delivered in such a backward fashion. This subtle kind of information, also called "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation" or "entanglement", has been at least partly understood since the 1930s when it was discussed in a famous paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen. In the 1960s, John Bell showed that a pair of entangled particles, which were once in contact but later move too far apart to interact directly, can exhibit individually random behavior that is too strongly correlated to be explained by classical statistics. Experiments on photons and other particles have repeatedly confirmed these correlations, thereby providing strong evidence for the validity of quantum mechanics, which neatly explains them.
Another well-known fact about EPR correlations is that they cannot by themselves deliver a meaningful and controllable message. It was thought that their only usefulness was in proving the validity of quantum mechanics. Now it is known that, through the phenomenon of quantum teleportation, they can deliver exactly that part of the information in an object, which is too delicate to be scanned out, and delivered by conventional methods.
This figure compares conventional facsimile transmission with quantum teleportation (see above). In conventional facsimile transmission, the original is scanned, extracting partial information about it, but remains more or less intact after the scanning process. The scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where it is imprinted on some raw material (example: paper) to produce an approximate copy of the original. In quantum teleportation, two objects B and C are first brought into contact and then separated. Object B is taken to the sending station, while object C is taken to the receiving station. At the sending station object B is scanned together with the original object A which one wishes to teleport, yielding some information and totally disrupting the state of A and B. The scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where it is used to select one of several treatments to be applied to object C, thereby putting C into an exact replica of the former state of A.
THE INNSBRUCK EXPERIMENT
IMAGE DEPICTS the University of Innsbruck experimental setup for quantum teleportation. In the quantum teleportation process, physicists take a photon (or any other quantum-scale particle, such as an electron or an atom) and transfer its properties (such as its polarization - the direction in which its electric field vibrates) to another photon - even if the two photons are at remote locations. The scheme does not teleport the photon itself; only its properties are imparted to another, remote photon.
Here is how it works: At the sending station of the quantum teleporter, Alice encodes a "messenger" photon (M) with a specific state: 45 degrees polarization. This travels towards a beam splitter. Meanwhile, two additional "entangled" photons (A and B) are created. The polarization of each photon is in a fuzzy, undetermined state, yet the two photons have a precisely defined interrelationship. Specifically, they must have complementary polarizations. For example, if photon A is later measured to have horizontal (0 degrees) polarization, then the other photon must "collapse" into the complementary state of vertical (90 degrees) polarization.
Entangled photon A arrives at the beam splitter at the same time as the message photon M. The beam splitter causes each photon to both continue toward detector 1 or change course and travel to detector 2. In 25% of all cases, in which the two photons go off into different detectors, Alice does not know which photon went to which detector. This inability of Alice to distinguish between the two photons causes quantum weirdness to kick in. Just by the very fact that the two photons are now indistinguishable, the M photon loses its original identity and becomes entangled with A. The polarization value for each photon is now indeterminate, but since they, travel toward different detectors Alice knows that the two photons must have complementary polarizations.
Since message photon M must have complementary polarization to photon A, then the other entangled photon (B) must now attain the same polarization value as M. Therefore, teleportation is successful. Indeed, Bob sees that the polarization value of photon B is 45 degrees: the initial value of the message photon.
PHOTON EXPERIMENTS
In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), along with two European groups, turned the IBM ideas into reality by successfully teleporting a photon, a particle of energy that carries light. The Caltech group was able to read the atomic structure of a photon, send this information across 1 meter (3.28 feet) of coaxial cable and create a replica of the photon. As predicted, the original photon no longer existed once the replica was made.
In performing the experiment, the Caltech group was able to get around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the main barrier for teleportation of objects larger than a photon. This principle states that you cannot simultaneously know the location and the speed of a particle. But if you can't know the position of a particle, then how can you teleport it In order to teleport a photon without violating the Heisenberg Principle, the Caltech physicists used a phenomenon known as entanglement. In entanglement, at least three photons are needed to achieve quantum teleportation:
Photon A: The photon to be teleported
Photon B: The transporting photon
Photon C: The photon that is entangled with photon B
If researchers tried to look too closely at photon A without entanglement, they would bump it, and thereby change it. By entangling photons B and C, researchers can extract some information about photon A, and the remaining information would be passed on to B by way of entanglement, and then on to photon C. When researchers apply the information from photon A to photon C, they can create an exact replica of photon A. However, photon A no longer exists as it did before the information was sent to photon C.
In other words, when Captain Kirk beams down to an alien planet, an analysis of his atomic structure is passed through the transporter room to his desired location, where a replica of Kirk is created and the original is destroyed.
A more recent teleportation success was achieved at the Australian National University, when researchers successfully teleported a laser beam.
While the idea of creating replicas of objects and destroying the originals doesn't sound too inviting for humans, quantum teleportation does hold promise for quantum computing. These experiments with photons are important in developing networks that can distribute quantum information. Professor Samuel Braunstein, of the University of Wales, Bangor, called such a network a "quantum Internet." This technology may be used one day to build a quantum computer that has data transmission rates many times faster than today's most powerful computers.
POLARIZATION ANALYSIS OF THE TELEPORTED PHOTON
The data shows the polarization of the teleported photon as a function of the delay between the arrival of photon 1 and 2 at Alice s beam splitter (when translating the retroflecting UV-mirror). Only around zero delay, interference occurs and allows registration of a Bell-state.
The polarization of photon 3 is analyzed if detector p has indicated that there is a photon to be teleported and if Alice s Bell-state analyzer has registered the state . Photon 3 shows the polarization defined by the polarizer acting on photon 1.
The polarization, without any background subtraction, is 70% 3%. The results for the two non-orthogonal states (45 and 90 ) prove teleportation of the quantum state of a single photon.
HUMAN TELEPORTATION
We are years away from the development of a teleportation machine like the transporter room on Star Trek's Enterprise spaceship. The laws of physics may even make it impossible to create a transporter that enables a person to be sent instantaneously to another location, which would require travel at the speed of light.
For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyze all of the 1028 atoms that make up the human body. That's more than a trillion atoms. This machine would then have to send this information to another location, where the person's body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe neurological or physiological defect.
In the Star Trek episodes, and the spin-off series that followed it, teleportation was performed by a machine called a transporter. This was a platform that the characters stood on, while Scotty adjusted switches on the transporter room control boards. The transporter machine then locked onto each atom of each person on the platform, and used a transporter carrier wave to transmit those molecules to wherever the crew wanted to go. Viewers watching at home witnessed Captain Kirk and his crew dissolving into a shiny glitter before disappearing, rematerializing instantly on some distant planet.
If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely that the person being transported would actually be "transported." It would work more like a fax machine a duplicate of the person would be made at the receiving end, but with much greater precision than a fax machine. But what would happen to the original One theory suggests that teleportation would combine genetic cloning with digitization.
In this biodigital cloning, tele-travelers would have to die, in a sense. Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be recreated in another location, and digitization would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions, hopes and dreams. So the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same information.
But like all technologies, scientists are sure to continue to improve upon the ideas of teleportation, to the point that we may one day be able to avoid such harsh methods. One day, one of your descendents could finish up a work day at a space office above some far away planet in a galaxy many light years from Earth, tell his or her wristwatch that it's time to beam home for dinner on planet X below and sit down at the dinner table as soon as the words leave his mouth.
ADVANTAGES
Teleportation Technology is now being used by organizations across the world to enable people to be in two (or more) places at once. These organizations have recognized the substantial communication benefits of the technology:
Genuine eye-to-eye contact with individuals or audiences in the distant location, which means you, can make that personal connection count wherever you are.
The quality of the communication means that you are able to see and respond to the mood and body language of the person you are speaking with to build trust and understanding.
There is natural two-way communication with no audio interference or discernable latency even if the communication is across twelve time zones.
You can take control of PowerPoint and other presentation material, which would be seen by the audience instantly - in real time as you are talking
With access to the Teleportec Global Network you just "click to connect" with any of the Teleportec facilities across the EU, North America and Australasia via our Operating System.
The financial benefits are significant too.
Substantial savings in travel and accommodation costs
Less non productive travel time means more efficient use of your valuable human resources
No expensive training required - The technology is very easy to use.
You can be there when travel is impossible.
CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE (CONCLUSION)
Teleportation technology is fast becoming an integral part of the classroom of the future. The UK Government in its latest Education Excellence in Cities Newsletter makes it clear that the technology "opens the way for innovation and new ways of teaching and learning". Over the past twelve months, Teleportec has been working with educational establishments across the world in the development of a global network of institutions. The vision of being able to teleport people into the classroom for history lessons and cultural exchange is now being realized. Schools in Salford, Greater Manchester in the UK and Texas in the USA are using the technology to share knowledge and experiences on a weekly basis. Schools in mainland Europe and Australia are also getting involved. Justin Wilson, Director of Salford's City Learning Center believes that "the use of the technology will be an important motivational tool for gifted and talented pupils"
In October, systems were installed at schools in Padre Island, Texas as an emergency measure when the bridge linking it to the mainland was destroyed. Since then, a large part of the curriculum has been delivered virtually. Teleportec are planning a series of global events for education over the coming months. Please contact Teleportec for further information. The cost of this equipment is nearest 35 lacks.
REFERENCES
C.H. Bennett, G. Brassard, C. Crepeau, R. Jozsa, A. Peres, and W. Wootters, "Teleporting an Unknown Quantum State via Dual Classical and EPR
Channels", Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 70, pp 1895-1899 (2006) (the original 6-author research article).
Tony Sudbury, "Instant Teleportation", Nature vol.362, pp 586-587 (2007) (a semi popular account).
Ivars Peterson, Science News, April 10, 2007, p. 229. (another semi popular account).
Samuel Braunstein, A fun talk on teleportation
For recent experimental and theoretical papers, do a title search on "teleportation" in the Los Alamos E-print Archive [IBM Research Quantum Information
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SEMINAR ON TELEPORTATION

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INTRODUCTION:-


Ever since the wheel was invented more than 5,000 years ago, people have been inventing new ways to

travel faster from one point to another.
To avoid the problem of covering a physical distance and to minimise the time ,there are scientists

working right now on such a method of travel, combining properties of telecommunications and

transportation to achieve a system called teleportation


TELEPORTATION:-

Teleportation involves dematerializing an bject at one point, and sending the details of that

object's precise atomic configuration to another location, where it will be reconstructed.
What this means is that time and space could be eliminated from travel -- we could be transported to

any location instantly, without actually crossing a physical distance.
In 1993, the idea of teleportation moved out of the realm of science fiction and into the world of

theoretical possibility. It was then that physicist Charles Bennett and a team of researchers at IBM

confirmed that quantum teleportation was possible, but only if the original object being teleported

was destroyed.
This revelation, first announced by Bennett at an annual meeting of the American Physical Society in

March 1993


WHERE TELEPORTATION IS POSSIBLE:-

TELEPORTATION will be explained with the following objects:
Experiments on photon
Human teleportation
Quantum teleportation


PHOTON EXPERIMENTS:-

In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), along with two European

groups, turned the IBM ideas into reality by successfully teleporting a photon, a particle of energy

that carries light.
The Caltech group was able to read the atomic structure of a photon, send this information across 1

meter (3.28 feet) of coaxial cable and create a replica of the photon.
In performing the experiment, the Caltech group was able to get around the Heisenberg Uncertainty

Principle, the main barrier for teleportation of objects larger than a photon.
This principle states that you cannot simultaneously know the location and the speed of a particle.

In order to teleport a photon without violating the Heisenberg Principle, the Caltech physicists

used a phenomenon known as entanglement.



ENTANGLEMENT:-

Entanglement means achieving the properties one photon by another photon.
In entanglement, at least three photons are needed to achieve teleportation:
Photon A:The photon to be teleported
Photon B:The transporting photon
Photon C:The photon that is entangled with photon B
If researchers tried to look too closely at photon A without entanglement, they would bump it, and

thereby change it. By entangling photons B and C, researchers can extract some information about

photon A, and the remaining information would be passed on to B by way of entanglement, and then on

to photon C. When researchers apply the information from photon A to photon C, they can create an

exact replica of photon A. However, photon A no longer exists as it did before the information was

sent to photon C.



PRINCIPLE OF ENTANGLEMENT :-

Two photons E1 & K and a beam spliters (it splits a light into two equal parts)
are required
We direct one of the entangled photons, say E1, to the beam splitter.
Meanwhile, we prepare another photon with a polarization of 45 degree , and direct it to the same

beam splitter from the other side, as shown.

The E1 photon incident from above will be reflected by the beam splitter some of the time and will

be transmitted some of the time. Similarly for the K photon that is incident from below. So

sometimes both photons will end up going up and to the right as shown.
However, in the case of one photon going upwards and the other going downwards, we can not tell

which is which. Perhaps both photons were reflected by the beam splitter, but perhaps both were

transmitted.



HUMAN TELEPORTATION:-

For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyze all

of the 10(to the power 28 ) atoms that make up the human body. That's a more than a trillion

trillion atoms. This machine would then have to send this information to another location, where the

person's body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter

out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe neurological or physiological defect.


HOW IT BE POSSIBLE:-

Teleportation would combining genetic cloning with digitization. In this biodigital cloning, tele-

travelers would have to die, in a sense.
Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be

recreated in another location, and digitization would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions,

hopes and dreams. So the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the

same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same information.


QUANTUM TELEPORTATION:-

In quantum teleportation the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the

information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to

construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from

atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. A teleportation

machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as

documents.
it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the

original in the process of scanning it.

In 1993 an international group of six scientists, including IBM Fellow Charles H. Bennett, confirmed

the intuitions of the majority of science fiction writers by showing that perfect teleportation is

indeed possible in principle, but only if the original is destroyed.

This six scientists found a way to scan out part of the information from an object A, which one

wishes to teleport, while causing the remaining, unscanned, part of the information to pass, into

another object C which has never been in contact with A. Later, by applying to C a treatment

depending on the scanned-out information, it is possible to maneuver C into exactly the same state

as A was in before it was scanned. A itself is no longer in that state, having been thoroughly

disrupted by the scanning, so what has been achieved is teleportation, not replication.
. In quantum teleportation two objects B and C are first brought into contact and then separated.

Object B is taken to the sending station, while object C is taken to the receiving station. At the

sending station object B is scanned together with the original object A which one wishes to

teleport, yielding some information and totally disrupting the state of A and B. The scanned

information is sent to the receiving station, where it is used to select one of several treatments

to be applied to object C, thereby putting C into an exact replica of the former state of A.
This above figure compares conventional facsimile transmission with quantum teleportation (seen

previously). In conventional facsimile transmission the original is scanned, extracting partial

information about it, but remains more or less intact after the scanning process.
The scanned information is sent to the receiving station, where it is imprinted on some raw material

(egg paper) to produce an approximate copy of the original



THE THEORY BEHIND QUANTUM TELEPORTATION:-

A & B are two entagled particles created in orthogonal state .
C be the particle that we wish to teleport .
In order to cause an entaglement between A & B, this simultaneously alters the quantum state of B

in such a way that when the classical information gleaned from analysis of A and C is applied to B ,

particle B becomes an exact replica of C.In the meantime , C has been totally disrupted and is no

longer in it s original state



PRACTICAL APPLICATION:-

Physicists can already teleport tiny things, such as a beam of light or the angular spin of atomic

nuclei. But physicists caution that teleportation research is still in the early development stage.
But within 20 years, Laflamme said teleportation could be a fundamental step in the creation of

quantum computers, cryptography, and an emerging technology called "superdense coding," in which two

quantum bits could be transmitted for the price one.


CONCLUSION:-

But like all technologies, scientists are sure to continue to improve upon the ideas of

teleportation, to the point that we may one day be able to avoid such harsh methods.
One day, one of our descendents could finish up a work day at a space office above some far away

planet in a galaxy many light years from Earth, tell his or her wristwatch that it's time to beam

home for dinner on planet X below and sit down at the dinner table as soon as the words leave his

mouth.
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Teleportation is the name given by science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while a perfect replica appears somewhere else. how this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail but the general idea seems to he that the original object is scanned in such a way as to extract all the information from it, then this information is transmitted to the receiving location and used to construct the replica, not necessarily from the actual material of the original, but perhaps from atoms of the same kinds, arranged in exactly the same pattern as the original. a teleportation machine would be like a fax machine, except that it would work on 3-dimensional objects as well as documents, it would produce an exact copy rather than an approximate facsimile, and it would destroy the original in the process of scanning it. In 1993 an international group of six scientists including IBM fellow charles h. bennett, confirmed the institution of the majority of science function writers by showing that perfect teleportation is indeed possible in principle, but only if the original is destroyed, meanwhile, other scientists are planning fiction experiments to demonstrate teleportation in microscopic objects, such as single atoms or photons, in the next few years. but science location fans will he disappointed to learn that no one expects to be able to teleport people or other macroscopic objects in the foreseeable future, for a variety of engineering reasons, even though it would not violate any fundamental law to do so.
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Guided by:
ANAND HARIDAS
Lecturer

Presented by:
NISHNA.M.A.
S7. I.T.

NEHRU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND RESEARCH CENTRE


OVERVIEW

INTRODUCTION
ENTANGLEMENT
ENTANGLED PHOTONS AT WORK
PREPARING FOR QUANTUM TELEPORTATION THOERY
CIRCUMVENTING HEISENBERG
BELL STATE MEASUREMENTS
BUILDING A TELEPORTER
TELEPORTING HUMAN
APPLICATIONS
FUTURE
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Teleportation appears in scientific fiction where object disappears at one place and appears at some other place.

Dream of beaming of objects from place to place is now reality for particles of light.

Entangled systems are shared by sender and receiver.
Scientists who paved the way for quantum teleportaion.

ENTANGLEMENT
Entanglement means achieving the properties one photon by another photon.
Here photon A and photn B will be same.
In entanglement, at least three photons are needed to achieve teleportation:
1.Photon A: The photon to be teleported
2.Photon B: The transporting photon
3.Photon C: The photon that is entangled with photon B

ENTANGLED PHOTONS AT WORK
Delicate entangled state is not disturbed.
Alice the sender and Bob the receiver share pair of entangled particles A and B.
Bob get a perfect replica of Alice.

PRINCIPLE OF ENTANGLEMENT & BELL STATE MEASUREMENTS
Two photons E1 & K and a beam splitters (it splits a light into two equal parts) are required.
We direct one of the entangled photons, say E1, to the beam splitter.



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Hi cool_axxi,
you can visit this thread for information on Quantum teleportation:
http://seminarsprojects.net/Thread-Quant...eportation

An introduction and project report pdf are also given there.

If you need more information on this, please post here.
Best of luck.
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(11-03-2009, 10:12 AM)computer science crazy Wrote: please download following documents, for getting introduction and report

Plz post the page link of PPT r upload the PPT in the same r different thread.
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#8
Can some body plz upload any ppt/project regarding teleportation..
If some one has done other than this which has been uploaded..
It would be very helpful..Smile
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#9
hey

check it out the page http://seminarsprojects.net/Thread-quant...37#pid5837 where ppt of the topic Quantum teleportation is added
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#10
Sorry but the ppt of this topic is not available as of now. You can easily make one by yourself with the details given in this thread.
Cheers!
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