{"id":202532,"date":"2024-12-27T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/northwestern-engineers-achieve-quantum-teleportation-over-existing-internet-cable"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:02:23","slug":"northwestern-engineers-achieve-quantum-teleportation-over-existing-internet-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/northwestern-engineers-achieve-quantum-teleportation-over-existing-internet-cable","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern Engineers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over Existing Internet Cable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/northwestern-engineers-achieve-quantum-teleportation-over-existing-internet-cable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University engineers have achieved quantum teleportation over fiber optic cables already carrying Internet traffic, an advance that could simplify the infrastructure needed for quantum computing and advanced sensing technologies, the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.northwestern.edu\/stories\/2024\/12\/first-demonstration-of-quantum-teleportation-over-busy-internet-cables\/\">university is reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/opg.optica.org\/optica\/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-11-12-1700&id=565936\">Optica<\/a>, demonstrates that quantum communication can coexist with classical Internet signals in the same cable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is incredibly exciting because nobody thought it was possible,\u201d said Prem Kumar, an electrical engineering professor at Northwestern and the study\u2019s lead researcher. \u201cOur work shows a path towards next-generation quantum and classical networks sharing a unified fiber optic infrastructure. Basically, it opens the door to pushing quantum communications to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University engineers have achieved quantum teleportation over fiber optic cables already carrying Internet traffic, an advance that could simplify the infrastructure needed for quantum computing and advanced sensing technologies, the university is reporting. The study, published in Optica, demonstrates that quantum communication can coexist with classical Internet signals in the same cable. \u201cThis is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202532","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\/202532","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}