{"id":97527,"date":"2019-10-16T22:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-super-secure-quantum-internet-just-took-another-step-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2019-10-16T22:55:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T05:55:37","slug":"a-super-secure-quantum-internet-just-took-another-step-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/a-super-secure-quantum-internet-just-took-another-step-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"A super-secure quantum internet just took another step closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-super-secure-quantum-internet-just-took-another-step-closer-to-reality2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have managed to send a record-breaking amount of data in quantum form, using a strange unit of quantum information called a qutrit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The news: <\/strong>Quantum tech promises to allow data to be sent securely over long distances. Scientists have already shown it\u2019s possible to transmit information both on land <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/610106\/chinese-satellite-uses-quantum-cryptography-for-secure-video-conference-between-continents\/\">and via satellites using quantum bits, or qubits<\/a>. Now physicists at the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Vienna in Austria have found a way to ship even more data using something called quantum trits, or qutrits.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Qutrits? Oh, come on, you\u2019ve just made that up: <\/strong>Nope, they\u2019re real. Conventional bits used to encode everything from financial records to YouTube videos are streams of electrical or photonic pulses than can represent either a <em>1 <\/em>or a <em>0<\/em>. Qubits, which are typically electrons or photons, can carry more information because they can be polarized in two directions at once, so they can represent both a <em>1 <\/em>and a <em>0 <\/em>at the same time. Qutrits, which can be polarized in three different dimensions simultaneously, can carry even more information. In theory, this can then be transmitted using quantum teleportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have managed to send a record-breaking amount of data in quantum form, using a strange unit of quantum information called a qutrit. The news: Quantum tech promises to allow data to be sent securely over long distances. Scientists have already shown it\u2019s possible to transmit information both on land and via satellites using quantum [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,418,1617,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-internet","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97527","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}