{"id":104534,"date":"2020-03-31T08:04:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/tiny-optical-cavity-could-make-quantum-networks-possible"},"modified":"2020-03-31T08:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:04:47","slug":"tiny-optical-cavity-could-make-quantum-networks-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/tiny-optical-cavity-could-make-quantum-networks-possible","title":{"rendered":"Tiny optical cavity could make quantum networks possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-optical-cavity-could-make-quantum-networks-possible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Caltech have shown that atoms in optical cavities\u2014tiny boxes for light\u2014could be foundational to the creation of a quantum internet. Their work was published on March 30 by the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum networks would connect quantum computers through a system that also operates at a quantum, rather than classical, level. In theory, quantum computers will one day be able to perform certain functions faster than <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/classical+computers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">classical computers<\/a> by taking advantage of the special properties of quantum mechanics, including superposition, which allows <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+bits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum bits<\/a> to store information as a 1 and a 0 simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>As they can with classical computers, engineers would like to be able to connect multiple quantum computers to share data and work together\u2014creating a \u201cquantum internet.\u201d This would open the door to several applications, including solving computations that are too large to be handled by a single quantum computer and establishing unbreakably secure communications using quantum cryptography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at Caltech have shown that atoms in optical cavities\u2014tiny boxes for light\u2014could be foundational to the creation of a quantum internet. Their work was published on March 30 by the journal Nature. Quantum networks would connect quantum computers through a system that also operates at a quantum, rather than classical, level. In theory, quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1625,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-encryption","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104534","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}