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About this paper

Illya Shapoval, Vincent Paul Su, Wibe de Jong, Miro Urbanek, Brian Swingle

Researchers experimentally demonstrated a wormhole-inspired teleportation protocol using a self-dual kicked Ising model on trapped-ion and superconducting quantum processors. They observed a teleportation signal consistent with predictions, achieving 80% fidelity on Quantinuum's H1-1 and 35% on IBM QPUs after extensive error mitigation, also revealing a new 'classical bit teleportation' regime.

Key insights

  • Experimental realization of quantum gravity-inspired phenomena, specifically a wormhole-inspired teleportation protocol, is feasible on current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices.
  • Hardware characteristics like gate fidelity, coherence times, and qubit connectivity significantly influence experimental outcomes for complex multi-qubit circuits.
  • The experimental process itself can inspire new theoretical understanding, exemplified by the discovery of a 'classical bit teleportation' regime in the self-dual kicked Ising model, where Z-eigenstates are perfectly transmitted but X and Y eigenstates are dephased.

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