{"id":189592,"date":"2024-05-17T03:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-step-toward-quantum-internet-with-experiment-under-the-streets-of-boston"},"modified":"2024-05-17T03:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T08:22:32","slug":"scientists-step-toward-quantum-internet-with-experiment-under-the-streets-of-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-step-toward-quantum-internet-with-experiment-under-the-streets-of-boston","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Step Toward Quantum Internet With Experiment Under the Streets of Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A quantum internet would essentially be unhackable. In the future, sensitive information\u2014financial or national security data, for instance, as opposed to memes and cat pictures\u2014would travel through such a network in parallel to a more traditional internet.<\/p>\n

Of course, building and scaling systems for quantum communications is no easy task. Scientists have been steadily chipping away at the problem for years<\/a>. A Harvard team recently took another noteworthy step in the right direction. In a paper published this week in Nature<\/em><\/a>, the team says they\u2019ve sent entangled photons between two quantum memory nodes 22 miles (35 kilometers) apart on existing fiber optic infrastructure under the busy streets of Boston.<\/p>\n

\u201cShowing that quantum network nodes can be entangled in the real-world environment of a very busy urban area is an important step toward practical networking between quantum computers,\u201d Mikhail Lukin, who led the project and is a physics professor at Harvard, said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quantum internet would essentially be unhackable. In the future, sensitive information\u2014financial or national security data, for instance, as opposed to memes and cat pictures\u2014would travel through such a network in parallel to a more traditional internet. Of course, building and scaling systems for quantum communications is no easy task. Scientists have been steadily chipping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,45,418,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-finance","category-internet","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189592","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}