{"id":245424,"date":"2026-10-15T01:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-network-test-checks-entanglement-without-having-to-trust-detectors"},"modified":"2026-10-15T01:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T06:47:58","slug":"quantum-network-test-checks-entanglement-without-having-to-trust-detectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/quantum-network-test-checks-entanglement-without-having-to-trust-detectors","title":{"rendered":"Quantum network test checks entanglement without having to trust detectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-network-test-checks-entanglement-without-having-to-trust-detectors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum networks are systems that connect different users or devices using principles of quantum mechanics. In the future, these networks could help improve the security of communications.<\/p>\n<p>For entanglement-based quantum networks to work, however, researchers need to be able to verify that particles are entangled and assess the extent of their entanglement. Entanglement is a quantum mechanical effect in which the shared states of distant particles cannot be described as separate or independent.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Shandong University recently introduced a new approach for verifying entanglement in a quantum network that does not require trusting the equipment used to analyze and detect photons (i.e., light particles), as most previously developed strategies do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum networks are systems that connect different users or devices using principles of quantum mechanics. In the future, these networks could help improve the security of communications. For entanglement-based quantum networks to work, however, researchers need to be able to verify that particles are entangled and assess the extent of their entanglement. Entanglement is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245424","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=245424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}