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MOLECULAR QUANTUM TELEPORTATION

Beam me up Scotty

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Although transporting a starship crewmember onto the surface of an alien planet is clearly science fiction, quantum state teleportation is not, and has been observed in various systems over the last few decades. Now, electron-spin teleportation has been observed in a carefully designed molecular system, paving the way for such behaviour to be tailored through molecular engineering.

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Fig. 1: Structures and relevant processes for molecular quantum spin teleportation.
Fig. 2: Experiments for observing quantum state teleportation.

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Forbes, M.D.E. Beam me up Scotty. Nat. Chem. 11, 967–969 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0363-1

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