Energy Can Be Teleported Over Long Distances, Say Quantum Physicists

Japanese physicists made calculations that prove that energy can be transmitted over long distances by quantum teleportation.

Quantum teleportation, despite its name, does not mean instantaneous transfer to a distance, because it necessarily requires the classical (not superlight) communication channel. At the same time, the quantum state can be transmitted, and the concept of transferring energy in this way is not new, but previously, calculations showed that the possibility of such a transfer should decrease rapidly with distance. Consequently, if the transfer of the states of atoms is realized for distances greater than 100 km, it was impossible with the energy that the Masahiro Hotta’s theory of 2008 allowed to teleport.

However, how can the states of atoms be used to transfer energy? Mr. Hotta is very inventive, and in his scheme, Alice (particle A) using the classical communication channel transmits to Bob (particle B) information that he should extract energy from the vacuum, which is based on the experimentally confirmed Casimir effect.

Masahiro Hotta’s idea is that since the nearby points in the quantum vacuum are quantum entangled, and Alice and Bob are close to each other, Alice is able to measure “her” local field and use the results of these calculations to obtain information about the Bob’s local field. If this information is then sent to Bob by classical communication channel, he can use it to develop a strategy of extracting energy from his local field. The energy that he will extract from the vacuum will always be less than the one spent by Alice on conducting the initial measurements. I.e. thermodynamics remains in his own right, and Alice can “teleport” energy to Bob in the form of data, which will then allow him to extract energy from the vacuum.

However, the degree of quantum entanglement between the local fields of Bob and Alice decreases rapidly with increasing distance between them. Bob can recover the energy spent by Alice, and it will be inversely proportional to the sixth power of the distance between them, i.e. teleportation of energy at any considerable distance will require cost comparable to the worldwide electricity generation per year.
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