The Quantum Internet of the Future
You might want to hold off on sending your family's secret chili recipe across the internet to your family member who lives out of state. Researchers are working on a way to harness quantum...
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You’ve just captured the intel and now you have to get it back to the CIA, ASAP. You have the latest encryption, but there’s still a chance the network could be compromised, and there’s no way to know. Do you risk it? This scenario could be from a spy thriller or a video game, but it’s not totally absurd. In fact, scientists across the globe are working on a solution to this very problem. And this week, physicists at Princeton and the Australian National University have made some progress. In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics, they announced that they’re a little closer to making a long-range quantum internet a reality. A quantum what? Alright, we’re going to need to take a step back here. A quantum internet, which would encode i...
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You’ve just captured the intel and now you have to get it back to the CIA, ASAP. You have the latest encryption, but there’s still a chance the network could be compromised, and there’s no way to know. Do you risk it? This scenario could be from a spy thriller or a video game, but it’s not totally absurd. In fact, scientists across the globe are working on a solution to this very problem. And this week, physicists at Princeton and the Australian National University have made some progress. In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics, they announced that they’re a little closer to making a long-range quantum internet a reality. A quantum what? Alright, we’re going to need to take a step back here. A quantum internet, which would encode i...
