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direct counterfactual quantum communication claimed
Futurism reports: [futurism.com]
For the first time in the history of quantum mechanics, scientists have been able to transmit a black and white image without having to send any physical particles. The phenomenon can be explained using the Zeno effect, the same effect that explains that movement itself is impossible.
The journal article is in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [pnas.org] (open access; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1614560114 [doi.org])
Wikipedia has an article [wikipedia.org] about the quantum Zeno effect.
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