Quantum teleportation is at the heart of many quantum information protocols. Two teams have now performed it over several kilometres of metropolitan fibre networks, paving the way for future quantum technologies on the city scale.
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Grosshans, F. Teleportation becomes streetwise. Nature Photon 10, 623–625 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2016.190
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