{"id":83887,"date":"2018-10-23T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/heres-what-the-quantum-internet-has-in-store"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:18:34","slug":"heres-what-the-quantum-internet-has-in-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/heres-what-the-quantum-internet-has-in-store","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what the quantum internet has in store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-what-the-quantum-internet-has-in-store.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature07127\" data-track=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature07127\" data-track-category=\"body text link\">future \u2018quantum internet\u2019<\/a> could find use long before it reaches technological maturity, a team of physicists predicts.<\/p>\n<p>Such a network, which exploits the unique effects of quantum physics, would be fundamentally different to the classical Internet we use today, and research groups worldwide are already working on its early stages of development. The first stages promise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/china-s-quantum-satellite-clears-major-hurdle-on-way-to-ultrasecure-communications-1.22142\" data-track=\"click\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/china-s-quantum-satellite-clears-major-hurdle-on-way-to-ultrasecure-communications-1.22142\" data-track-category=\"body text link\">virtually unbreakable privacy and security in communications<\/a>; a more mature network could include a range of applications for science and beyond that aren\u2019t possible with classical systems, including quantum sensors that can detect gravitational waves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-what-the-quantum-internet-has-in-store2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-07129-y\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;018&#45;07129-y<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A future \u2018quantum internet\u2019 could find use long before it reaches technological maturity, a team of physicists predicts. Such a network, which exploits the unique effects of quantum physics, would be fundamentally different to the classical Internet we use today, and research groups worldwide are already working on its early stages of development. The first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83887","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84032,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83887\/revisions\/84032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}