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The hope is that, after several more years of research, quantum teleportation will be viable across many miles.

China has made a push in hypersonics research, quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and U.S. officials believe that without a more concerted effort, the U.S. could fall behind in technologies that will be important to the economy as well as to military strength.

Jariatou Jarra wanted to research quantum mechanics when she started her physics degree at Imperial College London.

As defined by IBM Research, quantum computing harnesses "the quantum mechanical phenomena of superposition and entanglement to create states that scale exponentially with number of qubits, or quantum bits."

His own area of research, quantum computing, can offer strides towards these goals.