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Teleported Laser Pulses? Quantum Teleportation Approaches Sci-Fi Level
By Charles Q. Choi published
Researchers have now performed "quantum teleportation" of laser pulses over several miles within two city networks of fiber optics.
China Launches Pioneering 'Hack-Proof' Quantum-Communications Satellite
By Mike Wall published
China launched the first-ever quantum satellite Monday (Aug. 15), in an effort to help develop an unhackable communications system.
LHC Atom Smasher Opens Quantum Physics Floodgates
By Ian O'Neill published
As it restarts its mission to discover weird and exotic things about our universe, the Large Hadron Collider is about to become a firehose of quantum data.
Physicists Unleash AI to Devise Unthinkable Experiments
By Charles Q. Choi published
Researchers trying to divine the bizarre nature of quantum particle behavior are getting some help from software that designs counterintuitive experiments.
Big 'Schrödinger's Cats' Created
By Charles Q. Choi published
For the first time, scientists have demonstrated over macroscopic scales the phenomenon exemplified by imaginary feline Schrödinger's cat, which can be alive and dead at the same time.
'Spooky Action' Heats Up: Atoms Entangled at Room Temperature
By Charles Q. Choi published
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