Scientists claimed to have made a teleportation breakthrough (Image: Getty)
Scientists claim to have made a stunning breakthrough in the quest to unlock quantum teleportation.
If rolled out, technology could solve problems far beyond the capabilities of traditional computers.
Quantum teleportation is the transfer of quantum information over long distances almost instantly.
University of Oxford researchers say they achieved this by beaming data between quantum computers that were separated by over six feet.
This reportedly teleported logical gates – the basic components of a computer algorithm. They used protons, which are particles of light, to create a quantum link between the two devices.
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The quantum computers were able to work remotely using the same algorithms to perform tasks. Scientists say this could solve quantum computing’s scalability problem.
Quantum computers powerful enough to disrupt the industry would have to be capable of processing millions of qubits, the basic unit of information.
They are capable of running calculations in hours that today’s supercomputers would take years to solve.
But squeezing all these processors into a single device at present would require one to be enormous in size.
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However, the latest breakthrough links small quantum devices together in a major breakthrough. This distributes computations across the network, which in theory could introduce a limitless number of processors to the network.
Study lead Dougal Main (Department of Physics) said: “Previous demonstrations of quantum teleportation have focused on transferring quantum states between physically separated systems. In our study, we use quantum teleportation to create interactions between these distant systems.
“By carefully tailoring these interactions, we can perform logical quantum gates – the fundamental operations of quantum computing – between qubits housed in separate quantum computers.
“This breakthrough enables us to effectively ‘wire together’ distinct quantum processors into a single, fully-connected quantum computer.”
The scientists used Grover’s search algorithm to present the effectiveness of their method.
This quantum technique searches for a particular item in a large and unstructured dataset far quicker than a regular computer is capable of.
It means that if successful, it could create scaleable high-performance quantum computers capable of running calculations in hours that today’s supercomputers would take years to solve.