>>12913663in this particular experiment i'm not sure, but in principle quantum teleportation has nothing to do with specific wires or anything. it's just about taking some quantum state, say e.g. some set of qbits or some special quantum state like some delicate superposition state, and then sort of encode it into something else and then send that something else somewhere else and rebuild the quantum state perfectly. it's sort of a nothingburger to laypeople, but the reason physicists care about it is because 1) usually if you try to do anything with a quantum state, whatever you do fucks up the quantum state and decoheres it into another state and 2) the "no clone" theorem means you can't go from having one quantum state to having that original state plus one exact copy of it. quantum teleportation is kinda cool to physicists because it's sort of an exception -- you can move a quantum state from one spot to another without fucking it up by basically obliterating it, turning it into something else, and then at your endpoint reconstructing exactly the original state. but i don't see why laypeople would find this very interesting without misleading headlines and woo-woo that makes it sound more special than it actually is
