For example, recently European researchers successfully teleported photons over a distance of 143 km between two Canary Islands. The researchers’ findings have been published in Nature.
While quantum teleportation doesn’t lead to instantaneous communication, it does lead to incredibly secure communication, for no matter what instructions are sent over normal communication channels, those instructions are completely useless without the receiver’s entangled photon.
The next step is satellite-based quantum teleportation, which should enable quantum communication on a global scale.
