{"id":241397,"date":"2026-07-23T00:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-multiplexing-scheme-accelerates-long-distance-quantum-communication"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:27:52","slug":"new-multiplexing-scheme-accelerates-long-distance-quantum-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-multiplexing-scheme-accelerates-long-distance-quantum-communication","title":{"rendered":"New multiplexing scheme accelerates long-distance quantum communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-multiplexing-scheme-accelerates-long-distance-quantum-communication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum networks, systems consisting of multiple connected nodes or devices that can transmit quantum information to one another, have the potential to advance future communications. These networks typically leverage entanglement, a quantum phenomenon that prompts two or more distant particles to become highly correlated, so that measuring one instantly affects the state of the other.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure that distant particles have become entangled and can transmit quantum states, some quantum scientists try to realize so-called heralded entanglement. This entails confirmation, from a detectable signal, that entanglement between nodes has been established.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Tsinghua University and Hefei National Laboratory recently introduced a promising strategy to accelerate the generation of heralded entanglement between multiple ions (i.e., atoms with an electrical charge). Their proposed approach, outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/9h14-sc8t\" target=\"_blank\">a paper published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, relies on a so-called multiplexing scheme, a technique to send multiple signals through the same communication channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum networks, systems consisting of multiple connected nodes or devices that can transmit quantum information to one another, have the potential to advance future communications. These networks typically leverage entanglement, a quantum phenomenon that prompts two or more distant particles to become highly correlated, so that measuring one instantly affects the state of the other. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241397","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\/241397","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=241397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}