More indeterminate state to a determined one, like a superposition of states "collapsing" into a single eigenstate in quantum physics. But what's less well appreciated is just as important: ...

This discovery, that you can move information about one state to another location, was made in 1993 by the team of Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Claude Crépeau, Richard Jozsa, Asher Peres ...