Since the release of the new JJ Star Trek movie a week ago there seems to be quite the buzz about teleportation.
Teleportation is feasible currently for items without mass, so its current natural application is to pass information from one place to another. This new “field” is called quantum teleportation where one “quibt” (basic unit of quantum information) is transferred. There is a pretty good wiki page that goes much deeper into how it works and what photon entanglement means etc…..
But, in order for students to under stand all that, they first need to understand simple Hamiltonian physics and then Schrodingers wave equation. A really fun experiment to learn about both of these tops and do a quantitative experiment is using our quantum particle in a box experiment. In one sentence students measure the spectra from different diameter quantum dots and then use the Schrodinger wave equation to calculate the size of the dot. A video demonstration of this kit can be found below:
