Application: Create an intelligent sequence of quantum states, "teleporting" this across further and further distances (as well as that can be gauged), the idea being that potentially the sequence will appear somewhere an intelligent, scientific group of non-humans may be active at the quantum level and see this sequence, understanding that it was transported intentionally. We could create the equivalent of a tin can phone and communicate with intelligent life forms it would otherwise take us tens of thousands of years to locate, if not longer.
Methods data from the paper: <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2014/05/28/science.1253512.DC1/Pfaff.SM.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2014/05/28/science.1...</a><p>This is a Big Deal - disappointing to see it get so little attention here.