{"id":86136,"date":"2018-12-27T09:02:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/quantum-communication-just-took-a-great-leap-forward"},"modified":"2018-12-27T09:02:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T17:02:11","slug":"quantum-communication-just-took-a-great-leap-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/quantum-communication-just-took-a-great-leap-forward","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Communication Just Took a Great Leap Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-communication-just-took-a-great-leap-forward.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the field of quantum communication have recently made great strides, taking us closer to a perfectly secure method of communication.<\/p>\n<p>For years, researchers struggled to find ways to amplify quantum signals, <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/10\/22\/from-quantum-computing-to-a-quantum-internet-a-roadmap\/\">store large amounts of quantum data<\/a>, and allow for more than two nodes in a quantum network. However, in the last two months, solutions to all three of these problems have been found using the bizarre properties of the quantum world, in particular quantum entanglement.<\/p>\n<p>Now that these hurdles have been overcome, quantum networks and even a <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/10\/22\/from-quantum-computing-to-a-quantum-internet-a-roadmap\/\">quantum internet<\/a> seem like real possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2018\/12\/27\/quantum-communication-just-took-a-great-leap-forward\/\">https:\/\/scienceofsingularity.com\/2018\/12\/27\/quantum-communic...p-forward\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the field of quantum communication have recently made great strides, taking us closer to a perfectly secure method of communication. For years, researchers struggled to find ways to amplify quantum signals, store large amounts of quantum data, and allow for more than two nodes in a quantum network. However, in the last two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86136","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\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}