A major milestone in quantum computing has been achieved after researchers at the University of Oxford built a scalable quantum supercomputer capable of quantum teleportation.
By carefully tailoring these interactions, we can perform logical quantum gates – the fundamental operations of quantum computing – between qubits housed in separate quantum computers.
“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.
Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer Breakthrough brings quantum computing closer to large-scale practical use.
Utilising the properties of quantum physics, these next-generation machines replace traditional bits – the ‘ones’ and ‘zeros’ used to store and transfer digital information – with quantum bits (qubits), which can act as a one and a zero at the same time through a phenomena known as superposition.
