{"id":95628,"date":"2019-08-31T05:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/entanglement-sent-over-50-km-of-optical-fiber"},"modified":"2019-08-31T05:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T12:42:26","slug":"entanglement-sent-over-50-km-of-optical-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/entanglement-sent-over-50-km-of-optical-fiber","title":{"rendered":"Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/entanglement-sent-over-50-km-of-optical-fiber.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quantum internet promises absolutely tap-proof communication and powerful distributed sensor networks for new science and technology. However, because quantum information cannot be copied, it is not possible to send this information over a classical network. Quantum information must be transmitted by quantum particles, and special interfaces are required for this. The Innsbruck-based experimental physicist Ben Lanyon, who was awarded the Austrian START Prize in 2015 for his research, is investigating these important intersections of a future quantum Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Now his team at the Department of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck and at the Institute of Quantum Optics and <i>Quantum Information<\/i> of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has achieved a record for the transfer of quantum entanglement between matter and light. For the first time, a distance of 50 kilometers was covered using fiber optic cables. \u201cThis is two orders of magnitude further than was previously possible and is a practical distance to start building inter-city quantum networks,\u201d says Ben Lanyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quantum internet promises absolutely tap-proof communication and powerful distributed sensor networks for new science and technology. However, because quantum information cannot be copied, it is not possible to send this information over a classical network. Quantum information must be transmitted by quantum particles, and special interfaces are required for this. The Innsbruck-based experimental physicist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95628","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=95628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}