{"id":226011,"date":"2025-11-27T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/shop-bought-cable-helps-power-two-quantum-networks"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:30:52","slug":"shop-bought-cable-helps-power-two-quantum-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/shop-bought-cable-helps-power-two-quantum-networks","title":{"rendered":"Shop-bought cable helps power two quantum networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shop-bought-cable-helps-power-two-quantum-networks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For decades, physicists have dreamed of a quantum internet: a planetary web of ultrasecure communications and super-powered computation built not from electrical signals, but from the ghostly connections between particles of light.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists in Edinburgh say they\u2019ve taken a major step toward turning that vision into something real.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have unveiled a prototype quantum network that links two smaller networks into one reconfigurable, eight-user system capable of routing and even teleporting entanglement on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, physicists have dreamed of a quantum internet: a planetary web of ultrasecure communications and super-powered computation built not from electrical signals, but from the ghostly connections between particles of light. Now, scientists in Edinburgh say they\u2019ve taken a major step toward turning that vision into something real. Researchers at Heriot-Watt University have unveiled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226011","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=226011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}