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First Quantum Teleportation between Light and Matter. Max Planck Institute
“Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have succeeded in transferring a quantum state of light to a material object – an ensemble of atoms. The concept of quantum teleportation – the disembodied complete transfer of the state of a quantum system to any other place – was first experimentally realised between two different light beams. A team has now shown that the quantum states of a light pulse can also be transferred to a macroscopic object, an ensemble of 10 to the power of 12 atoms.”