{"id":121601,"date":"2021-04-15T23:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/researchers-establish-the-first-entanglement-based-quantum-network"},"modified":"2021-04-15T23:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T06:24:04","slug":"researchers-establish-the-first-entanglement-based-quantum-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/researchers-establish-the-first-entanglement-based-quantum-network","title":{"rendered":"Researchers establish the first entanglement-based quantum network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-establish-the-first-entanglement-based-quantum-network2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from QuTech in the Netherlands reports realization of the first multi-node quantum network, connecting three quantum processors. In addition, they achieved a proof-of-principle demonstration of key quantum network protocols. Their findings mark an important milestone toward the future quantum internet and have now been published in Science.<\/p>\n<p>The power of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/internet\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">internet<\/a> is that it allows any two computers on Earth to connect. Today, researchers in many labs around the world are working toward first versions of a quantum internet\u2014a network that can connect any two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum devices<\/a>, such as quantum computers or sensors, over large distances. Whereas today\u2019s internet distributes information in bits that can be either 0 or 1, a future quantum internet will make use of quantum bits that can be 0 and 1 at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA quantum internet will open up a range of novel applications, from unhackable communication and cloud computing with complete user privacy to high-precision time-keeping,\u201d says Matteo Pompili, Ph.D. student and a member of the research team. \u201cAnd like with the internet 40 years ago, there are probably many applications we cannot foresee right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers from QuTech in the Netherlands reports realization of the first multi-node quantum network, connecting three quantum processors. In addition, they achieved a proof-of-principle demonstration of key quantum network protocols. Their findings mark an important milestone toward the future quantum internet and have now been published in Science. The power of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121601","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}