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Teleporting atom takes a quantum leap

JAN 23, 2009
Physics Today
Nature : Researchers have teleported a single ion of the element ytterbium over a metre in distance, shattering previous records. Photons have gone further but teleportation of matter has only occurred between ions in the same trap over a few micrometers.
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