Quantum teleportation approaches the computer chip

Researchers transmit information from one tiny circuit to another

QUANTUM VIEW  An ant provides scale in this false-color electron micrograph of the first solid-state device capable of quantum teleportation.

Jonas Mlynek/ETH Zurich

Quantum teleportation is on its way to becoming routine. New work demonstrates that quantum information can teleport on demand, using for the first time a device that closely resembles a computer chip.