Teleportation at the quantum level

NPR : Teleportation may one day be possible, but rather than transferring matter from one point to another, it most likely will involve transferring information, according to Chris Monroe and David Hucul of the University of Maryland’s Joint Quantum Institute. Because any carbon atom is identical to any other carbon atom, the actual atoms that make up an object don’t need to be moved. Rather, the object could theoretically be rebuilt from the atoms at hand, if the states of all the atoms of the original object were known. To that end, the researchers have been working with a laboratory full of lasers, mirrors, and lenses to measure an atom’s information and transpose it to another. Although such a system of quantum teleportation would never work for moving people, they say, it could have its uses, such as in quantum computing.