CNN reports that Professor Eugene Polzik at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark teleported matter.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
Reader comment:
Phil Smithback says:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've been seeing this post (about teleporting caesium atoms) everywhere, but I think it's pretty misleading. If this has to do with the Nature letter that is up in their current issue on www.Nature.com, then what was achieved wasn't actually teleportaion – which most people would consider physically moving a trillion caesium atoms in space – but rather quantum teleportation – the transmission of quantum states over distance. The letter is none the less really, really cool, because it involves a quantum teleportation that hasn't been done before. I'm pretty sure if you're familiar with quantum entanglement (if not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement). However instead of the usual entanglement of, say, an electron and an anti-electron, the experimenters entangled a laser beam and the spin states of a bunch of cesium atoms. Then, when they changed the polarization of parts of the laser beam, the quantum information was teleported to the atoms' spin state. Still, it's not actually teleportation, and seeing the unqualified word teleportation plastered up everywhere has my friends all spouting nonsense about Star Trek and whatnot.
