{"id":160943,"date":"2023-03-24T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-experiment-translates-quantum-information-between-technologies-in-an-important-step-for-the-quantum-internet"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T23:22:24","slug":"new-experiment-translates-quantum-information-between-technologies-in-an-important-step-for-the-quantum-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-experiment-translates-quantum-information-between-technologies-in-an-important-step-for-the-quantum-internet","title":{"rendered":"New experiment translates quantum information between technologies in an important step for the quantum internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-experiment-translates-quantum-information-between-technologies-in-an-important-step-for-the-quantum-internet2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a way to \u201ctranslate\u201d quantum information between different kinds of quantum technologies, with significant implications for quantum computing, communication, and networking.<\/p>\n<p>The research was published in the journal <i>Nature<\/i> on Wednesday. It represents a new way to convert <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> from the format used by quantum computers to the format needed for quantum communication.<\/p>\n<p>Photons\u2014particles of light\u2014are essential for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information technologies<\/a>, but different technologies use them at different frequencies. For example, some of the most common <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+computing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum computing<\/a> technology is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/superconducting+qubits\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">superconducting qubits<\/a>, such as those used by tech giants Google and IBM; these qubits store quantum information in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photons<\/a> that move at microwave frequencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a way to \u201ctranslate\u201d quantum information between different kinds of quantum technologies, with significant implications for quantum computing, communication, and networking. The research was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. It represents a new way to convert quantum information from the format used by quantum computers to the format needed for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160943","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}