Scientists Teleport Information Between Ions a Meter Apart

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erickhill writes with word that scientists from the University of Maryland have successfully transferred information from one charged atom to another without having it cross the intervening space of about one meter. The academic paper is available in the journal Science, though it requires a subscription to see more than the abstract.
Scientists have previously teleported unmolested qubits between photons of light, and between photons and clouds of atoms. But researchers have long sought to teleport qubits between distant atoms. Light's high speed of travel makes photons good transporters of information, but for storing quantum information, atoms are a much better choice because they're easier to hold on to. 'This is a big deal,' comments Myungshik Kim, a quantum physicist at Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. 'To store information as it is in quantum form, you have to have a teleportation scheme available between two stationary qubits. Then you can store them and manipulate them later on.'"
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/24/0016255
 
Awesome. Haha, as Dane Cook says, in the future everything will be instantaneous, but the DMV will still take like 3 seconds!
 
Actually I knew that, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. I know it's suffers from beaurocratic red tape but why mention that one?
 
Picard said:
Actually I knew that, but it doesn't make a lot of sense. I know it's suffers from beaurocratic red tape but why mention that one?
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According to some - it's actually Hell on Earth.

EDIT** - Having recently been to the deprtment, I agree!
 
smokey said:
According to some - it's actually Hell on Earth.

EDIT** - Having recently been to the deprtment, I agree!
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What I don't understand.....

*Photographs (External business) - 5 Minutes
(including printing and paying) arguably the most technically complex part of the procedure

* Form completion (Me) - 5 mins

* Thumb prints (Single person) - 2 mins

* Eye test (Single person) - 4 mins
(Manual despite 5 computers in the room)

* Pasting photo onto card (Single person) - 1 minute.

Total time for actual doing stuff (Despite stupid workflow) 16-20 minutes

Time spent in cashiers queue (2-3 persons) - 1 Hour 20 minutes.

This I cannot understand.

Sorry, while the rest of the world may wiz by, DMV and it's ilk will remain in hell.
 
Soooo the molested qubits are unwilling to cooperate?
 
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