According Disclose.tv, a Chinese team has successfully developed the world’s first ground-to-satellite quantum network which is capable of recording the biggest distance in which quantum entanglement can be calculated.

Scientist first discovered the amazing concept on quantum entanglement in the 1990’s. It was discovered that once two photons are placed in contact with one another, they will become inextricably linked and mimic each other’s behavior even if they are far apart from one another.

This new technology is necessary in developing long-distance teleportation networks. There have been some issues in recent years which stalled work on the concept. Although the two photons should remain linked theoretically, it has been hard to prove since the specimen photon gets lost in the atmosphere. Until recently, teleportation experiments only worked at a distance of 100 kilometers.

The Chinese scientists were able to fix this problem by placing a highly sensitive photon receptor into orbit. This creates a vacuum that prevents the photons from getting lost which allows them to be monitored at a distance of up to 1400km away. Although millions of photons were used for the experiment, clear evidence of entanglement was found in 911 cases.

“This work establishes the first ground-to-satellite uplink for faithful and ultra-long-distance quantum teleportation, an essential step toward the global-scale quantum internet,” wrote the team in a report.