My graduate alma mater made some news this week, with a new quantum teleportation experiment in which they "teleport" the state of one ytterbium ion to another ytterbium ion about a meter away. That may not sound like much, but it's the first time anybody has done this with ions in two completely separate traps, in different vacuum systems. It's also written up in Physics World, though they spell Chris Monroe's name wrong throughout.
The paper is coming out in Science, and I may try to write it up for a ResearchBlogging post over the weekend. I may also need to add it to the quantum teleportation chapter of the book-in-progress. A small price to pay for the onward march of science...
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