Scientists have made a major breakthrough by having managed to teleport information from A to B in an electric circuit. Scientists have been able to do it for the first time. The electric circuit was similar to a computer chip.

For the first time, physicists at ETH Zurich have teleported information in a so-called solid state system. They used a device similar to a conventional computer chip to conduct the experiment. The difference to a usual computer chip is that the information is not stored and processed based on the laws of classical physics, but on those of quantum physics.

The researchers succeeded to teleport information across a distance of about six millimeters. The information was teleported from one corner of a chip to the opposite one. It was made possible without transporting the physical object carrying the information itself from the sender's to the receiver's corner.

Andreas Wallraff is a Professor at the Department of Physics and head of the study. He said that quantum teleportation can be compared to beaming like it was shown in Star Trek.

"The information does not travel from point A to point B. Instead, it appears at point B and disappears at point A, when read out at point B", the researcher said.