{"id":230499,"date":"2026-02-04T05:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ultra-thin-metasurface-can-generate-and-direct-quantum-entanglement"},"modified":"2026-02-04T05:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:25:36","slug":"ultra-thin-metasurface-can-generate-and-direct-quantum-entanglement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/ultra-thin-metasurface-can-generate-and-direct-quantum-entanglement","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-thin metasurface can generate and direct quantum entanglement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-thin-metasurface-can-generate-and-direct-quantum-entanglement.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum technologies, devices and systems that process, store, detect, or transfer information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical technologies in a variety of tasks. An ongoing quest within quantum engineering is the realization of a so-called quantum internet: a network conceptually analogous to today\u2019s internet, in which distant nodes are linked through shared quantum resources, most notably quantum entanglement.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Nanjing University and University of Science and Technology of China have developed a new ultra-thin metasurface that could contribute to this goal, as it can control the behavior of light, while also generating and directing entanglement across many channels.<\/p>\n<p>This metasurface, presented in a paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/mzmv-7x98\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, has so far proved to be promising for the development of scalable and integrated quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum technologies, devices and systems that process, store, detect, or transfer information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical technologies in a variety of tasks. An ongoing quest within quantum engineering is the realization of a so-called quantum internet: a network conceptually analogous to today\u2019s internet, in which distant nodes are linked [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499","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=230499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}