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Teleportation: Important step in improving quantum computing

Date: June 19, 2020

Source: University of Rochester

Summary: Researchers are exploring new ways of creating quantum-mechanical interactions between distant
electrons. The research marks an important advance in quantum computing.

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"Beam me up" is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series. It is
the command issued when a character wishes to teleport from a remote location back to
the Starship Enterprise.

While human teleportation exists only in science fiction, teleportation is possible in the subatomic world of
quantum mechanics -- albeit not in the way typically depicted on TV. In the quantum world, teleportation involves
the transportation of information, rather than the transportation of matter.

Last year scientists confirmed that information could be passed between photons on computer chips even when
the photons were not physically linked.

Now, according to new research from the University of Rochester and Purdue University, teleportation may also
be possible between electrons.

In a paper published in Nature Communications and one to appear in Physical Review X, the researchers,
including John Nichol, an assistant professor of physics at Rochester, and Andrew Jordan, a professor of physics
at Rochester, explore new ways of creating quantum-mechanical interactions between distant electrons. The
research is an important step in improving quantum computing, which, in turn, has the potential to revolutionize
technology, medicine, and science by providing faster and more efficient processors and sensors.

'Spooky Action at a Distance'

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Quantum teleportation is a demonstration of what Albert Einstein famously called "spooky action at a distance" --
also known as quantum entanglement. In entanglement -- one of the basic of concepts of quantum physics -- the
properties of one particle affect the properties of another, even when the particles are separated by a large
distance. Quantum teleportation involves two distant, entangled particles in which the state of a third particle
instantly "teleports" its state to the two entangled particles.

Quantum teleportation is an important means for transmitting information in quantum computing. While a typical
computer consists of billions of transistors, called bits, quantum computers encode information in quantum bits, or
qubits. A bit has a single binary value, which can be either "0" or "1," but qubits can be both "0" and "1" at the
same time. The ability for individual qubits to simultaneously occupy multiple states underlies the great potential
power of quantum computers.

Scientists have recently demonstrated quantum teleportation by using electromagnetic photons to create
remotely entangled pairs of qubits.

Qubits made from individual electrons, however, are also promising for transmitting information in
semiconductors.

"Individual electrons are promising qubits because they interact very easily with each other, and individual
electron qubits in semiconductors are also scalable," Nichol says. "Reliably creating long-distance interactions
between electrons is essential for quantum computing."

Creating entangled pairs of electron qubits that span long distances, which is required for teleportation, has
proved challenging, though: while photons naturally propagate over long distances, electrons usually are confined
to one place.

Entangled Pairs of Electrons

In order to demonstrate quantum teleportation using electrons, the researchers harnessed a recently developed
technique based on the principles of Heisenberg exchange coupling. An individual electron is like a bar magnet
with a north pole and a south pole that can point either up or down. The direction of the pole -- whether the north
pole is pointing up or down, for instance -- is known as the electron's magnetic moment or quantum spin state. If
certain kinds of particles have the same magnetic moment, they cannot be in the same place at the same time.
That is, two electrons in the same quantum state cannot sit on top of each other. If they did, their states would
swap back and forth in time.

The researchers used the technique to distribute entangled pairs of electrons and teleport their spin states.

"We provide evidence for 'entanglement swapping,' in which we create entanglement between two electrons even
though the particles never interact, and 'quantum gate teleportation,' a potentially useful technique for quantum
computing using teleportation," Nichol says. "Our work shows that this can be done even without photons."

The results pave the way for future research on quantum teleportation involving spin states of all matter, not just
photons, and provide more evidence for the surprisingly useful capabilities of individual electrons in qubit
semiconductors.

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Materials provided by University of Rochester. Original written by Lindsey Valich. Note: Content may be edited
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Journal References:

1. Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Andrew N. Jordan, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C.
Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, John M. Nichol. Conditional teleportation of quantum-dot spin states. Nature
Communications, 2020; 11 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16745-0
2. Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, Kuangyin Deng, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra,
Edwin Barnes, John M. Nichol. Coherent multi-spin exchange in a quantum-dot spin chain. Physical
Review X, 2020 [link]

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