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.

 

Nanjing University - Drones could help create a quantum internet: Scientists have used octocopters to send entangled photons to distant locations

Title:

Drones could help create a quantum internet 

Author:

Emily Conover

Published:

ScienceNews, 14 January 2021

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-drones-could-help-create-quantum-internet

From the article:

Scientists have now used drones to transmit particles of light, or photons, that share the quantum linkage called entanglement. The photons were sent to two locations a kilometer apart, researchers from Nanjing University in China report in a study to appear in Physical Review Letters.

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) - Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light

Title:

Physicists successfully carry out controlled transport of stored light

 

By:

Universitaet Mainz

 

Published:

Phys.org, 13 October 2020

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-successfully.html

 

From the article:

A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory over a distance of 1.2 millimeters. They have demonstrated that the controlled transport process and its dynamics has only little impact on the properties of the stored light. The researchers used ultra-cold rubidium-87 atoms as a storage medium for the light as to achieve a high level of storage efficiency and a long lifetime.