Indeed my spelling was incorrect.
Thanks for the clarification.
Rachel, I am stupefied, momentarily, about your post. I will consider you as a "sleeper" physicist. I am truly impressed, however, not surprised. We must talk.
Your boyfriend isn't Michio Kaku, is he? "Behind every good man"...
The photon pairs were only able to be created about 8 times on average. A feat in itself. Last year, a month prior to now, the Chinese broke the record with 10 pairs. They had to reproduce it to claim victory.
Basically, if you want to produce entangled photons, you need to take one energetic photon, and using a laser, split it into two photons with a lower charge inside a crystal of beta-barium borate. These two photons will come out naturally entangled with each other.
To create something like an eight-photon entanglement - or a record-breaking 10-photon entanglement - you can feed them through beam splitters and have them arrive at exactly the same time, which allows you to combine entangled pairs.
You are correct as far as the use of the quantum communications, However, teleportation has taken place.
Last month, Chinese researchers showed that quantum communication between Earth and space is possible, and now they have used the tech, to send a photon to space, using quantum teleportation. The distances you are referring to, happened over fiber optic cables, here on terra firma.
I am unaware at this, writing of fiber optic cables attached to a satellite.
The experiment was conducted between Micius (the Chinese quantum satellite) and a ground station. The researchers were able to transfer the unknown quantum state from one photon here on Earth to another one in space.
If we want to prove once and for all that quantum computers, and quantum teleportation, are viable technologies for the future, we’re going to have to produce entanglement at a much quicker rate, and involving a whole lot more photons.
Once thought of as a rare occurrence, and limited to discussions about what the hell happens to matter, as it falls over the event horizon, of a Black Hole - spoiler: we still don’t know - quantum entanglement, has in recent years become a mainstay, for physicists working on everything from cryptography, to teleportation.
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In simplistic terms, it is the new theoretical science of continuing to receive their endowments, and pay checks.
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We're all made up of light, held in matter. Every thing we see, and do, is light related, on the quantum scale.
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This is how we will overcome the light speed barrier. Not by star ships, and propulsion.
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Rachel, check out the National Geographic channel for "Year Million"
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I've seen 3 episodes already last night & today. You will most likely enjoy it.
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Hugs for everyone.