{"id":222323,"date":"2025-09-23T08:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-relay-architecture-based-on-a-quantum-dot-single-photon-source-enables-secure-communication-across-300-km"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:06:34","slug":"new-relay-architecture-based-on-a-quantum-dot-single-photon-source-enables-secure-communication-across-300-km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-relay-architecture-based-on-a-quantum-dot-single-photon-source-enables-secure-communication-across-300-km","title":{"rendered":"New relay architecture based on a quantum dot single-photon source enables secure communication across 300 km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-relay-architecture-based-on-a-quantum-dot-single-photon-source-enables-secure-communication-across-300-km.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies are systems that can compute data, sense their surrounding environment or perform other functions leveraging quantum mechanical effects. Connecting these technologies over long distances has so far proved challenging, as quantum information can easily become scrambled or destroyed following decoherence resulting from the systems\u2019 interactions with their surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+physicists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum physicists<\/a> and engineers have been trying to devise effective techniques to reliably establish <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum networks<\/a>, infrastructures that allow <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a> to travel between different devices.<\/p>\n<p>The realization of these networks requires so-called quantum relays, intermediate stations that can forward and redistribute entangled states, extending the distances across which devices can communicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technologies are systems that can compute data, sense their surrounding environment or perform other functions leveraging quantum mechanical effects. Connecting these technologies over long distances has so far proved challenging, as quantum information can easily become scrambled or destroyed following decoherence resulting from the systems\u2019 interactions with their surrounding environment. Over the past few [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222323","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}