Think of it like an identical pair of Shrodinger’s Cats. You can’t know if the cat is alive or dead 'til you open the box, but because they’re identical you know that the other box will show the same result as your own.
The lasers don’t transmit information, they transmit a quantum superposition. The act of measuring this quantum state creates information, and because the photons are entangled, this information includes what was received at both ends.
So the photons that carry the information aren’t teleported, but the information itself is because it doesn’t exist until it is observed.
That sounds like complete garbage though, if those qubits are still in superposition then it hasn’t changed from being both 1 and 0. All that means is that nothing has really between the two points and the teleportation is theoretical.
It might be counterintuitive, but that’s genuinely how quantum systems work.
The entangled photons are in a state of quantum superposition until they are measured, and that measurement creates information about the state of both photons.
It’s not a process that can be used to transmit classical information, it’s a process that transmits identical quantum random numbers to two places at once that can’t be intercepted without breaking their identicalness.
I understand quantum entanglement is a real thing but in this article, you click on where it says quantum teleportation and it tells you what they do is use laser patterns and no mention of quantum entanglement, it just sounds like fiber optics minus the fibers.
“Previous demonstrations of quantum teleportation have focused on transferring quantum states between physically separated systems,” said Dougal Main, from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, who led the study.
"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.”
To simplify, they’re not just entangling pairs of photons and sending them out to two systems, but entangling entire qubits that exist on separate systems. This allows the qubits on separate systems to interact with each other without collapsing their superposition, enabling the quantum equivalent of parallel processing.
Rather than two identical Shrodinger’s Cats as in entangled photons, the entangled qubits act as one Shrodinger’s Cat that’s in two places simultaneously.
The optics are just the medium through which the qubits are entangled, the interesting part isn’t the lasers but the interaction between physically-separated qubits.
Well you can’t say it’s teleportation without transmitting data but also say they use fiber optics as a medium. This is about as much teleportation as my fiber optic internet connection.
It is teleportation, but the thing being teleported is information about a quantum state.
The particles that carry this information are in a quantum superposition, like Shrodinger’s Cat. Because of quantum physics, the information they carry doesn’t exist until you open the box and measure it. That’s why they call it teleportation, because it allows us to copy a quantum state from one place to another without opening the box and collapsing the superposition at any point inbetween.
Think of it like an identical pair of Shrodinger’s Cats. You can’t know if the cat is alive or dead 'til you open the box, but because they’re identical you know that the other box will show the same result as your own.
The lasers don’t transmit information, they transmit a quantum superposition. The act of measuring this quantum state creates information, and because the photons are entangled, this information includes what was received at both ends.
So the photons that carry the information aren’t teleported, but the information itself is because it doesn’t exist until it is observed.
That sounds like complete garbage though, if those qubits are still in superposition then it hasn’t changed from being both 1 and 0. All that means is that nothing has really between the two points and the teleportation is theoretical.
It might be counterintuitive, but that’s genuinely how quantum systems work.
The entangled photons are in a state of quantum superposition until they are measured, and that measurement creates information about the state of both photons.
It’s not a process that can be used to transmit classical information, it’s a process that transmits identical quantum random numbers to two places at once that can’t be intercepted without breaking their identicalness.
I understand quantum entanglement is a real thing but in this article, you click on where it says quantum teleportation and it tells you what they do is use laser patterns and no mention of quantum entanglement, it just sounds like fiber optics minus the fibers.
To simplify, they’re not just entangling pairs of photons and sending them out to two systems, but entangling entire qubits that exist on separate systems. This allows the qubits on separate systems to interact with each other without collapsing their superposition, enabling the quantum equivalent of parallel processing.
Rather than two identical Shrodinger’s Cats as in entangled photons, the entangled qubits act as one Shrodinger’s Cat that’s in two places simultaneously.
Here’s an article directly from university of oxford regarding this
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-06-first-distributed-quantum-algorithm-brings-quantum-supercomputers-closer
They explicitly describe the process as using a photonic network interface. I don’t see how this is entanglement rather than optics/lasers
They even mention using optic fibers in the article
The optics are just the medium through which the qubits are entangled, the interesting part isn’t the lasers but the interaction between physically-separated qubits.
You could theoretically accomplish the same thing by physically bonking the qubits together so that they interact via nuclear forces instead of the electromagnetic field, like they did with entire molecules at Durham University a few weeks back: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/world-first-quantum-entanglement-of-molecules-at-92-fidelity-uk-achieves-magic/ar-AA1xfHI9
Well you can’t say it’s teleportation without transmitting data but also say they use fiber optics as a medium. This is about as much teleportation as my fiber optic internet connection.
It is teleportation, but the thing being teleported is information about a quantum state.
The particles that carry this information are in a quantum superposition, like Shrodinger’s Cat. Because of quantum physics, the information they carry doesn’t exist until you open the box and measure it. That’s why they call it teleportation, because it allows us to copy a quantum state from one place to another without opening the box and collapsing the superposition at any point inbetween.