{"id":242279,"date":"2026-08-06T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/physicists-shatter-quantum-entanglement-distance-record-with-420-kilometers-of-optical-fiber"},"modified":"2026-08-06T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:03:09","slug":"physicists-shatter-quantum-entanglement-distance-record-with-420-kilometers-of-optical-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/physicists-shatter-quantum-entanglement-distance-record-with-420-kilometers-of-optical-fiber","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Shatter Quantum Entanglement Distance Record With 420 Kilometers of Optical Fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-shatter-quantum-entanglement-distance-record-with-420-kilometers-of-optical-fiber.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it\u2019s even more difficult for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-unveiled-the-first-ever-photo-of-quantum-entanglement\">entangled states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The longer the fiber, the harder it becomes to keep the two quantum memories linked.<\/p>\n<p>Overcoming this tyranny of distance has been one of the major challenges of quantum communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maintaining a long-distance relationship may be difficult for humans, but it\u2019s even more difficult for entangled states. The longer the fiber, the harder it becomes to keep the two quantum memories linked. Overcoming this tyranny of distance has been one of the major challenges of quantum communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242279","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=242279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}