Just last
year, a Long March 2D rocket lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre
in the Gobi Desert transporting a satellite called Micius, named after an
ancient Chinese logician from 391 B.C. Micius is in a Sun-synchronous orbit so
that it travels over the exact same point on Earth at the same time each day.
Micius is
very important for quantum experiments. It has a highly sensitive receiver that
can detect the quantum states of single photons sent from the ground. It is
very helpful in experimenting entanglement, cryptography, and teleportation.
Few days ago
Micius team publicized the results of its first experiments. They used Micius
to successfully teleport the first object from the ground to orbit.
Researchers
were able to teleport a proton from Earth to the orbit. You can read about the
whole experiment and how it was done here.
This is the
first time that any object has been teleported from Earth to orbit, and it also
smashes the record for the longest distance for entanglement.
This
experiment was done by Chinese researchers.
This also
demonstrates China’s clear dominance and lead in a field that, until now, was
led by Europe and the U.S.
The reaseach
paper has been published in arxiv.org. You can read it here.
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