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i started writing out a little essay but decided instead to give you the gist: a single qubit state can't be perfectly transferred with only an finite amount of classical information because it corresponds to a point on a sphere (so we would need to transfer latitude and longitude to arbitrary precision). Also, measuring a single qubit only gives one bit of information. However, if both parties share an entangled state (called a Bell state), I can entangle my qubit with my half of the bell state and THEN measure it. Then, my partner can do some operations that depend on what I measure to their half of the bell state, and they will end up with the same qubit I originally had.
In the process, my original qubit will be destroyed - its not possible to duplicate a qubit, interestingly. This is called the no-cloning theorem.
There is no superluminal possibility here, because the classical information to "teleport" the state still needs to be transferred - which is limited by causality. Quantum mechanics is "nonlocal" only because it doesn't take into account relativity, when we add relativity we do get a causal theory.
So is it "once i measure the doohickey on my end i know what the doohickey on the other end" looks like instead of "i can transfer information at ftl speed" ?
Like, idk, how a 2fa authenticator program generates the same codes even when it's not connected because of clocks and encryption or something?
close! Let me give some more detail.
There are 3 "objects" to consider here
First, I make a bell pair (P1,P2), and apply some quantum operation interacting P1 with |ψ>. Then I measure P1 and |ψ>, which will give me two bits of information "M1","M2". I send to my friend over the optical fibre: the photon P2 (quantum), and M1,M2 (classical). Then, they can apply some operations which are decided by M1,M2 onto P2 and they will get back the original state |ψ>.
there is an analogy to RSA (if you're familiar), where the shared bell state is kind of like the key pair, encryption corresponds to combining the original state and measuring, and decrypting corresponds to applying the operations to the other half of the bell pair.
The advantage here, over sending the initial state |ψ> directly over the optical fibre, is that the bell state can be established by e.g. a third node sending half of a bell pair to each party, so that we only need to communicate classically to achieve quantum teleportation.
But also, quantum teleportation is a means of moving quantum states between different /types/ of qubit - of which there are many, which are good for different things.
I understand like 25% of this but thank you for trying.