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Teleporting larger objects becomes real possibility
Teleporting larger objects becomes real possibility
19:00 06 February 02 Anil Ananthaswamy The dream of teleporting atoms and molecules - and maybe even larger objects - has become a real possibility for the first time. The advance is thanks to physicists who have suggested a method that in theory could be used to "entangle" absolutely any kind of particle. Quantum entanglement is the bizarre property that allows two particles to behave as one, no matter how far apart they are. If you measure the state of one particle, you instantly determine the state of the other. This could one day allow us to teleport objects by transferring their properties instantly from one place to another. Until now, physicists have only been able to entangle photons, electrons and atoms, using different methods in each case. For instance, atoms are entangled by forcing them to interact inside an optical trap, while photons are made to interact with a crystal. "These schemes are very specific," says Sougato Bose of the University of Oxford. But Bose and Dipankar Home, of the Bose Institute in Calcutta, have now demonstrated a single mechanism that could be used to entangle any particles, even atoms or large molecules. Beam splitter To see how it works, consider the angular momentum or "spin" of an electron. To entangle the spins of two electrons, you first need to make sure they're identical in all respects but their spin. Then you shoot the electrons simultaneously into a beam splitter. This device "splits" each electron into a quantum state called a superposition, which gives it an equal probability of travelling down either of two paths. Only when you try to detect the electron do you know which path it took. If you split two electrons simultaneously, both paths could have one electron each (which will happen half of the time) or either path could have both. Bose and Home show mathematically that whenever one electron is detected in each path, they will be entangled. While a similar effect has been demonstrated before for photons, the photons used were already entangled in another way, even before they reached the beam splitter. "One of the advances we have made is that these two particles could be from completely independent sources," says Bose. Massive particles The technique should work for any objects - atoms, molecules and who knows what else - as long as you can split the beam into a quantum superposition. Anton Zeilinger, a quantum physicist at the University of Vienna in Austria, has already shown that this quantum state is possible with buckyballs - football-shaped molecules of C60. Although entangling such large objects is beyond our technical abilities at the moment, this is the first technique that might one day make it possible. Any scheme that expands the range of particles that can be entangled is important, says Zeilinger. Entangling massive particles would mean they could then be used for quantum cryptography, computing and even teleportation. "It would be fascinating," he says. "The possibility that you can teleport not just quantum states of photons, but also of more massive particles, that in itself is an interesting goal." Journal reference: Physical Review Letters (vol 88, article 05401) |
Ik kan geen engels :s. Wat staat er ongeveer?
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En wederom komt de wereld van Star trek een stapje dichterbij!! http://forum.scholieren.com/biggrin.gif
Groetjes Ben(die graag naar star trek kijkt en meer dan 50 videobanden heeft http://forum.scholieren.com/smile.gif |
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Er staat zoveel als dat het binnenkort mogelijk wordt om mensen op punt A te laten verdwijnen om ze op B weer te voorschijn te laten komen |
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Het gaat erover dat ene dr. Zeilinger een aantal moleculen in een qauntum-staat heeft gebracht, waardoor hij ze teleporteren kon. En de enthousiaste schrijver van het stuk vraagt zich af of binnenkort ook grotere dingen zo te verplaatsen zijn... |
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Beam me up scotty.
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teleporteren zal me wat. fotonen-teleportatie is toch genoeg voor super-lichtsnelheids-communicatie dat is zo cool..
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Best vaag, geeft een hoop mogelijkheden. Dan wordt sneller-dan-het-licht reizen opeens mogelijk enzo http://forum.scholieren.com/biggrin.gif |
Crap, jullie hebben geen idee van wat je leest he?
Er staat alleen maar dat ze nu een simpelere manier hebben gevonden om grotere objecten (zo wat groot zeg, het lukt nog niet eens met een buckeyball, en die gaat nog steeds 3,4 * 10^26 keer of zo in je hand) in een entangled state te krijgen. Tja, dat is inderdaad zeer snelle informatie uitwisseling. Volgens de EPM kan dit inderdaad sneller dan licht, zeer stoer. Teleporteren is dan 'mogelijk', je moet alleen nog even een volledige scan van iemand hebben, en er voor zorgen dat je aan de hand van informatie een compleet lichaam samen kunt stellen... Bovendien, dat is dus iemand scannen, zn info doorgeven en dan opnieuw opbouwen. Ik wil je ook wel direkter teleporteren, zoals je ziet heb je 50% kans dat er helemaal niks gebeurd terwijl er aan je quantumstate gerommeld wordt http://forum.scholieren.com/tongue.gif Stelletje Telegraaf journalisten hier http://forum.scholieren.com/tongue.gif |
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