Well,don't hold your breath waiting for real life transporters,like on Star Trek. To transport a person,his/her atoms would have to be read to the subatomic level,and reconstructed at the receiving terminal.How this could be done instantly and without error is beyond imagining,and would require computational power that is orders of magnitude beyond what we have now.
It should be noted that the transporter as envisioned on Star Trek was a plot device whose purpose was to save money on set designs.Having people and objects fade away and fade into view (through special effects) at the destination is infinitely cheaper than building sets depicting the Enterprise landing on a alien planet.