Going even further is the seemingly science-fiction possibility of "quantum teleportation".
Quantum teleportation depends on entanglement, one of the strangest of the many strange aspects of quantum mechanics.
What, after all, have Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, talk of "quantum teleportation" and a blitz of four-letter words to do with Chekhov's Three Sisters?
Correction: June 26 , 2004 Saturday An article on June 17 about quantum teleportation, in which characteristics were transferred from one atom to another, misstated a result of a precursor experiment in 2001.
"Jemma's always trying to relate things that are going on in her life to the things she's learning about," says Bevan. "So, when her best friend just disappears, it sets her off thinking about quantum teleportation".
Such pairs are crucial to quantum teleportation.
But what else is quantum teleportation good for?
Figure 1 Scheme of the proposed quantum teleportation protocol.
Big step for quantum teleportation won't bring us any closer to Star Trek.
In quantum teleportation, nothing is disintegrated and reassembled and no matter travels anywhere.
