First teleportation achieved      

A team of scientists from Australia and Japan have successfully transferred a complex set of quantum data in light form. You see, previously researchers had struggled with slow performance or loss of information, but with full transmission integrity achieved — as in blocks of qubits being destroyed in one place but instantaneously resurrected in another, without affecting their superpositions — we’re now one huge step closer to secure, high-speed quantum communication.

“The breakthrough is the first-ever transfer, or teleportation, of a particular complex set of quantum information from one point to another, opening the way for high-speed, high-fidelity transmission of large volumes of information, such as quantum encryption keys, via quantum communications networks.

“If we can do this, we can do just about any form of communication needed for any quantum technology.”

This image shows the teleporter in
the lab of Professor Akira Furusawa
at the University of Tokyo (click to view full size).

The experiments were conducted on a machine known as “the teleporter” in the laboratory of Professor Akira Furusawa in the Department of Applied Physics in the University of Tokyo.”

source: http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2011/apr/Quantum_teleport_paper.html