{"id":242297,"date":"2026-08-06T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/spooky-particles-transit-dc-suburbs-a-step-toward-a-quantum-network"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:50:04","slug":"spooky-particles-transit-dc-suburbs-a-step-toward-a-quantum-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/spooky-particles-transit-dc-suburbs-a-step-toward-a-quantum-network","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Spooky\u2019 particles transit DC suburbs, a step toward a quantum network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spooky-particles-transit-dc-suburbs-a-step-toward-a-quantum-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In early 2025, special signals wended their way through a fiber-optic highway strung above the streets and sidewalks of the Maryland suburbs. The arrival of those signals at their destination marks a significant step toward a long-held dream of building a \u201cquantum network.\u201d Researchers believe that this emerging technology could someday link quantum devices in ways that supercharge scientific research, enable ultrasecure communications and boost the power of future quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers and collaborators <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1364\/JOCN.592521\" target=\"_blank\">reported this advance<\/a> in the <i>Journal of Optical Communications and Networking.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early 2025, special signals wended their way through a fiber-optic highway strung above the streets and sidewalks of the Maryland suburbs. The arrival of those signals at their destination marks a significant step toward a long-held dream of building a \u201cquantum network.\u201d Researchers believe that this emerging technology could someday link quantum devices in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242297","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\/242297","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=242297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}