Experimental Results
Work in 1998 verified the initial results, and in August 2004 increased the distance of teleportation to 600 meters using optical fiber. The longest distance yet claimed to be achieved for quantum teleportation is 143 km (89 mi) in May 2012 between the two Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife off the Atlantic coast of north Africa. This is a milestone to potential applications, since it corresponds to the minimum distance between the ground and orbiting satellites. In April 2011, experimenters reported that they had demonstrated teleportation of wave packets of light up to a bandwidth of 10 MHz while preserving strongly nonclassical superposition states.
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