{"id":216268,"date":"2025-06-19T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-propose-blueprint-for-universal-translator-in-quantum-networks"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T23:08:13","slug":"scientists-propose-blueprint-for-universal-translator-in-quantum-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-propose-blueprint-for-universal-translator-in-quantum-networks","title":{"rendered":"Scientists propose blueprint for \u2018universal translator\u2019 in quantum networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-propose-blueprint-for-universal-translator-in-quantum-networks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UBC researchers are proposing a solution to a key hurdle in quantum networking: a device that can \u201ctranslate\u201d microwave to optical signals and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>The technology could serve as a universal translator for quantum computers\u2014enabling them to talk to one another over long distances and converting up to 95% of a signal with virtually no noise. And it all fits on a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon+chip\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon chip<\/a>, the same material found in everyday computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like finding a translator that gets nearly every word right, keeps the message intact and adds no background chatter,\u201d says study author Mohammad Khalifa, who conducted the research during his Ph.D. at UBC\u2019s faculty of applied science and the Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (SBQMI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBC researchers are proposing a solution to a key hurdle in quantum networking: a device that can \u201ctranslate\u201d microwave to optical signals and vice versa. The technology could serve as a universal translator for quantum computers\u2014enabling them to talk to one another over long distances and converting up to 95% of a signal with virtually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216268","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=216268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}