{"id":223264,"date":"2025-10-11T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-transmit-photons-from-moving-plane-in-major-quantum-leap"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T16:04:18","slug":"researchers-transmit-photons-from-moving-plane-in-major-quantum-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/researchers-transmit-photons-from-moving-plane-in-major-quantum-leap","title":{"rendered":"Researchers transmit photons from moving plane in major quantum leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-transmit-photons-from-moving-plane-in-major-quantum-leap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A consortium of German researchers has successfully transmitted individual photons from a moving aircraft, captured them in a mobile ground station, and verified their quantum states.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, a key part of Germany\u2019s QuNET initiative, marks a critical step towards building a global, tap-proof quantum communication network.<\/p>\n<p>The research team successfully measured various quantum channels between the aircraft and the ground, sent the light particles to a sophisticated ion trap, and tested technologies vital for quantum key distribution (QKD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A consortium of German researchers has successfully transmitted individual photons from a moving aircraft, captured them in a mobile ground station, and verified their quantum states. The experiment, a key part of Germany\u2019s QuNET initiative, marks a critical step towards building a global, tap-proof quantum communication network. The research team successfully measured various quantum channels [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223264","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}