Don't let the catchy name distract you, says Philip Ball: the questions inspired by this arguably misnamed phenomenon go to the heart of quantum theory.
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04 August 2017
An earlier version of this story wrongly stated that quantum states can be teleported only if their content is unknown. In fact, this is not essential.
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Ball, P. Quantum teleportation is even weirder than you think. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.22321
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