{"id":104284,"date":"2020-03-26T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/harvard-mit-scientists-make-quantum-leap-toward-new-internet"},"modified":"2020-03-26T08:04:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:04:15","slug":"harvard-mit-scientists-make-quantum-leap-toward-new-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/harvard-mit-scientists-make-quantum-leap-toward-new-internet","title":{"rendered":"Harvard, MIT Scientists Make Quantum Leap Toward New Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harvard-mit-scientists-make-quantum-leap-toward-new-internet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Harvard and MIT have pioneered a device that could improve quantum communication and may be the key to developing a quantum internet, according to an article published Monday in the scientific journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum signals lose information when traveling over long distances. To solve this problem, the researchers\u2019 new technology catches and stores quantum bits \u2014 known as qubits \u2014 thus preventing information loss. The physicists hope this breakthrough will open the door to a quantum internet that can communicate unhackable messages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first system-level demonstration, combining major advances in nanofabrication, photonics and quantum control, that shows a clear quantum advantage to communicating information using quantum repeater nodes,\u201d Mikhail D. Lukin \u2014 a Harvard physics professor who lead the research team \u2014 said in a press release published Monday. \u201cWe look forward to starting to explore new, unique applications using these techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Harvard and MIT have pioneered a device that could improve quantum communication and may be the key to developing a quantum internet, according to an article published Monday in the scientific journal Nature. Quantum signals lose information when traveling over long distances. To solve this problem, the researchers\u2019 new technology catches and stores [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}