Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain - Scientists in Spain Just Got a Step Closer to Building a Practical Quantum Repeater [SingularityHub, June 2021]

Title:

Scientists in Spain Just Got a Step Closer to Building a Practical Quantum Repeater 

 

Author:

Edd Gent

 

Published:

SingularityHub, 14 June 20214

https://singularityhub.com/2021/06/14/scientists-in-spain-just-got-a-step-closer-to-building-a-practical-quantum-repeater/

 

From the article:

A quantum internet could play a key role in tying together many of the most promising applications for quantum technologies. The main impetus for quantum communication networks today is security, because a feature of messages encoded in quantum states is that reading them changes their content, alerting the receiver to any eavesdropping.