Was that straight transport in linear time and all? I thought I saw something a while back about quantum movement experiments at UC Santa Barbara but they were talking space / time shifts. Two places at once, jumping into a parallel / alternate universe, etc.
I figured the tractor beam heat production would be enormous. Too bad it couldn't work in space (as of now I guess) if enough energy could be produced.
Well technically, quantum tunneling is probably more akin to what people think of as "teleportation" than what is called quantum teleportation.
Quantum teleportation is really the teleportation of information (a quantum entangled state) at instantaneous/FTL speeds, however the whole system overall is not FTL, because a particle (a photon) that's part of the entangled system still must travel at relativistic light speed.
Tunneling is the attribute that due to the uncertainty principle, a particle can simply "get through" a barrier that it's classical Einsteinian/Newtonian energy could not get it through. So if electrons approach or are next to some kind of barrier that they have insufficient potential of whatever kind, electrical, kinetic etc... they just "get over there" anyway because of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
If you think of an electron not as a a "billiard ball" but as a probability cloud, when that electron approaches a "wall" of some sort, the probability cloud's edge actually passes through the barrier to a degree before it "bounces" or interacts with that wall in whatever way it was going to. But since that probability cloud has X-probability the electron actually is/was in the part of the cloud that passed through the barrier, so did the actual electron.
It's becoming an issue in IC design, because after a certain lower limit on the size of microns in the silicon pathways, the electrons can just "jump" through quantum tunneling over to another path, and disrupt the AND/OR gate functions etc. Although, there's some ideas out there that actually might someday attempt to exploit this, allowing circuit paths with no connections at all in some places. Although the industry will probably have to figure out high frequency X or gamma ray lithography or other chip assembly methods to produce structures in the 3nm range where quantum tunneling begins to happen with sufficient regularity.
And yes, it's a probability exercise, but one that can be proven experimentally. And the multiple infinite universes satisfy the quantum randomness, in that all outcomes do happen, just that each one happens in it's own universe.