{"id":28893,"date":"2016-08-13T19:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/turning-quantum-theories-into-quantum-technologies"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:25:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:25:33","slug":"turning-quantum-theories-into-quantum-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/turning-quantum-theories-into-quantum-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Turning Quantum Theories Into Quantum Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turning-quantum-theories-into-quantum-technologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ACQUIRE researchers will confront major challenges in a four-year quest to engineer a quantum communication system on a chip. The chip will need to operate at room temperature with low energy in a fiber optic network with entangled photons.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, such a communication system may be demonstrated in laboratories, but only at cryogenic (very low) temperatures, and with bulky, energy-intensive equipment. However, a fundamental understanding of quantum physics and optical materials, as well as recent progress in nanoscale photonic integration, have brought communication systems scaled to the quantum level within reach.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, the ACQUIRE teams\u2019 results will begin to realize the hardware needed for secure and efficient quantum communication. The findings from the ACQUIRE projects will also advance quantum sensing and computing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/tek-think.com\/2016\/08\/12\/turning-quantum-theories-into-quantum-technologies\/\">http:\/\/tek-think.com\/2016\/08\/12\/turning-quantum-theories-int...hnologies\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACQUIRE researchers will confront major challenges in a four-year quest to engineer a quantum communication system on a chip. The chip will need to operate at room temperature with low energy in a fiber optic network with entangled photons. Currently, such a communication system may be demonstrated in laboratories, but only at cryogenic (very low) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28893","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66598,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28893\/revisions\/66598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}