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Engineering & Technology

Better than fiction [quantum teleportation]

C. Evans-Pughe

Published Oct 25, 2008• 2 citations
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Abstract

Teleportation is not a realm of science fiction but a way of harnessing the peculiarities of quantum mechanics in new types of secure cryptographic systems. The excitement about teleportation is that it lets us transport delicate quantum states robustly using the quantum property of entanglement.
DOI
10.1049/et:20081802

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