{"id":223295,"date":"2025-10-12T12:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-new-scalable-approach-to-realize-a-quantum-communication-network-based-on-ytterbium-171-atoms"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:15:56","slug":"a-new-scalable-approach-to-realize-a-quantum-communication-network-based-on-ytterbium-171-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-new-scalable-approach-to-realize-a-quantum-communication-network-based-on-ytterbium-171-atoms","title":{"rendered":"A new scalable approach to realize a quantum communication network based on ytterbium-171 atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-scalable-approach-to-realize-a-quantum-communication-network-based-on-ytterbium-171-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers, quantum sensors or other quantum devices, hold the potential of enabling faster and safer communications. The establishment of these networks relies on a quantum phenomenon known as entanglement, which entails a link between particles or systems, with the quantum state of one influencing the other even when they are far apart.<\/p>\n<p>The atom-based qubits used to establish <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum networks<\/a> so far operate at visible or ultraviolet wavelength, which is not ideal for the transmission of signals over long distances via optical fibers. Converting these signals to telecom-band wavelengths, however, can reduce the efficiency of communication and introduce undesirable signals that can disrupt the link between qubits.<\/p>\n<p>A research team at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by Prof. Jacob P. Covey recently realized telecom-band wavelength quantum networking using an array of ytterbium-171 atoms. Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41567-025-03022-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>, introduces a promising approach to realize high-fidelity entanglement between atoms and optical photons generated directly in the telecommunication band.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers, quantum sensors or other quantum devices, hold the potential of enabling faster and safer communications. The establishment of these networks relies on a quantum phenomenon known as entanglement, which entails a link between particles or systems, with the quantum state of one influencing the other even when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223295","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=223295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}