Scientists Teleport Information Between Atoms

Scientists have transferred physical characteristics between
atoms by using a phenomenon so bizarre that even Albert Einstein
called it spooky. 

Such "quantum teleportation'' of characteristics had been
demonstrated before between beams of light. 

Two teams of scientists report similar results in [Thursday's
issue of the journal Nature] One group was led by David
J. Wineland of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
in Boulder, Colo., and the other by Rainer Blatt of the University
of Innsbruck in Austria. 

[Wineland's] work involved transmitting characteristics between
pairs of beryllium atoms, while the Austrian work used pairs of
calcium atoms. Each atom's "quantum state,'' a complex combination
of traits, was transmitted to its counterpart. 

Key to the process was a phenomenon called entanglement, which
Einstein derided as "spooky action at a distance'' before
experiments showed it was real. 

Basically, researchers can use lab techniques to create a weird
relationship between pairs of tiny particles. After that, the fate
of one particle instantly affects the other; if one particle is
made to take on a certain set of properties, the other immediately
takes on identical or opposite properties, no matter how far away
it is and without any apparent physical connection to the first
particle.

By Malcolm Ritter
AP Science Writer
posted: 10:25 am ET
17 June 2004


http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/atom_teleportation_040617.html

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