A breakthrough in quantum physics happened at the Niels Bohr Institute, as researchers were able to successfully teleport information on two clouds of gas atoms on all experiments.
Many think that successful teleportation is only possible in science fiction movies like Doctor Who and Star Trek. Recently though, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute made a step closer to making this dream a reality when they were able to successfully teleport information between gas atoms and light way back in 2006, and finally being able to teleport information between two clouds this year. Furthermore, the experiment was successful every time they ran it at the Niels Bohr Institute.
The head of research center Quantop, Professor Eugene Polzik was pleased with the new found stability in the results of the experiments. He mentioned that this was an important breakthrough for quantum research.
The experiments on teleportation were conducted at the Qunatop research facilities, in the basement of the Niels Bohr Institute. The experiment works by placing two non-connected glass containers that contains caesium gas atoms clouds teleporting information from one cloud to another using a laser light.
Once the light is sent to a container, the gas entangles and light would then form to make quantum link. Since both containers are enclosed magnetic field chamber, once the laser light hits the gas atoms, the electrons located in the outermost part of the caesium gas react by pointing in the same way – either up or down – that makes up the quantum information. The gas then emits particles of light which contain the information and send it to the other container. A detector will send the signal back to the first container to be adjusted.
To prevent attenuation, or the bouncing of atoms off the interiors of the containers, Polzik and his research team coating the interiors of the containers with paraffin buffers to prevent loss of signal.
Details of the research were published in an online journal Nature Physics.
