{"id":97988,"date":"2019-10-30T11:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/faster-more-secure-communications-using-structured-light-in-quantum-protocols"},"modified":"2019-10-30T11:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T18:43:36","slug":"faster-more-secure-communications-using-structured-light-in-quantum-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/faster-more-secure-communications-using-structured-light-in-quantum-protocols","title":{"rendered":"Faster, More Secure Communications Using Structured Light in Quantum Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/faster-more-secure-communications-using-structured-light-in-quantum-protocols2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and more secure.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum mechanics has come a long way during the past 100 years but still has a long way to go. In <a href=\"https:\/\/avs.scitation.org\/doi\/10.1116\/1.5112027\"><em>AVS Quantum Science<\/em><\/a>, from AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa review the progress being made in using structured light in quantum protocols to create a larger encoding alphabet, stronger security and better resistance to noise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we really want is to do quantum mechanics with patterns of light,\u201d said author Andrew Forbes. \u201cBy this, we mean that light comes in a variety of patterns that can be made unique \u2014 like our faces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Structured light is a fancy way to describe patterns or pictures of light, but deservedly so as it promises future communications that will be both faster and more secure. Quantum mechanics has come a long way during the past 100 years but still has a long way to go. In AVS Quantum Science, from AIP [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97988","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=97988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}