Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum supercomputer

A team of Oxford scientists has just potentially paved the way for the large-scale, practical use of quantum supercomputers.

Humanity has finally solved the puzzle of teleportation — in the world of quantum supercomputers, that is.

A group of Oxford scientists believe their breakthrough will be huge in bringing quantum supercomputers to scale, ultimately ushering in a new era of efficiency and discovery across all modern industries.

To the uninitiated (which encompasses most of us), a quantum supercomputer is essentially a regular computer on steroids. It has incredible processing power, and surpasses the capabilities of its binary predecessor by using ‘qubits’ — a unit of information which can be both 0 and 1 at the same time.

Basically, if you envision regular computers as being either heads or tails on the flip of a coin, a quantum computer would effectively be the coin spinning on its side offering up both possibilities at once. Its processers are far more advanced, making quantum computing perfect for complex problem solving and aiding previously intangible discoveries.