[UFO Chicago] Meeting Followup: Quantum Teleportation, Entangled Photons

[Neil R. Ormos]

Meeting follow-up:

In a June 2010 paper in Nature Photonics, Jin et al. reported
information transfer using quantum teleportation over 16 km of free
space with an "average fidelity" of 89 percent.

  <http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v4/n6/fig_tab/nphoton.2010.87_F1.html>

tit:Experimental free-space quantum teleportation
aut:Xian-Min Jin, Ji-Gang Ren, Bin Yang, Zhen-Huan Yi, Fei Zhou, 
    Xiao-Fan Xu, Shao-Kai Wang, Dong Yang, Yuan-Feng Hu, Shuo 
    Jiang, Tao Yang, Hao Yin, Kai Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng & 
    Jian-Wei Pan
cit:Nature Photonics 4, 376 - 381 (2010) Published online: 16 May 2010
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.87

An accessible explanation is here:

  <http://www.physorg.com/news193551675.html>

Some background, a little too accessible IMO, is here:

  <http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/65060/title/Everyday_Entanglement>