{"id":123387,"date":"2021-06-03T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-internet-woven-from-spooky-quantum-links-could-supercharge-science-and-commerce"},"modified":"2021-06-03T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:22:37","slug":"new-internet-woven-from-spooky-quantum-links-could-supercharge-science-and-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/new-internet-woven-from-spooky-quantum-links-could-supercharge-science-and-commerce","title":{"rendered":"New internet woven from \u2018spooky\u2019 quantum links could supercharge science and commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-internet-woven-from-spooky-quantum-links-could-supercharge-science-and-commerce2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For that, they will need the quantum equivalent of optical repeaters, the components of today\u2019s telecommunications networks that keep light signals strong across thousands of kilometers of optical fiber. Several teams have already demonstrated key elements of quantum repeaters and say they\u2019re well on their way to building extended networks. \u201cWe\u2019ve solved all the scientific problems,\u201d says Mikhail Lukin, a physicist at Harvard University. \u201cI\u2019m extremely optimistic that on the scale of 5 to 10 years\u2026 we\u2019ll have continental-scale network prototypes.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Advance could precisely link telescopes, yield hypersecure banking and elections, and make quantum computing possible from anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For that, they will need the quantum equivalent of optical repeaters, the components of today\u2019s telecommunications networks that keep light signals strong across thousands of kilometers of optical fiber. Several teams have already demonstrated key elements of quantum repeaters and say they\u2019re well on their way to building extended networks. \u201cWe\u2019ve solved all the scientific [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,418,1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-internet","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123387","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}