The future we see in fiction goes on track to become reality thanks to sciencea. The quantum method for any type of communications brings together the elements to be the answer to all these questions. In principle, the focus points to the Internet. And although the equation is not yet completely solved, there are already many experts shouting Eureka!
Scientists around the world have been working on the development of the quantum Internet for many years. The advances have been significant since have managed to intertwine a hypothetical point A with B from less to more distance.
Distance is still the big issue because of the amount of energy a computer has to consume to get a message across nodes far. So, little by little, they have been increasing the distance with the lowest possible energy consumption, which is basically what they are after.
It is in this context that an experiment from an institute in China appears, reflected in the portal Computer Today. Regarding this work, they highlight that the scientists set a record for the entanglement distance between two quantum memories (qbits).
What is the quantum internet?
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We hope to live at least the beginning of the implementation of a quantum Internet system and thus we will have gone from the old fiber optics that depended on a local telephone, to this amazing innovation.
The quantum internet is the future of the web, with speed levels that reduce latency and delay to the minimum possible, to tiny fractions of a secondloading monumental data packets, virtually impossible by today’s standards.
In computing, data is encoded using ones and zeros. While in the quantum realm these binary components are simultaneously superimposed based on qbits.
In other words, the quantum Internet will be a network that allows quantum devices to exchange information ultra-fast, governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. So its speed will be much higher than the current one, at levels never seen before.
What was the record?
Specifically for the record, it is necessary to separate two concepts. Some time ago we told you that scientists from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) and the Saarland University managed to connect atoms 33 kilometers away.
The most recent milestone in science, the one that marks a new record in quantum, managed to interleave qbit memories at 12.5 kilometers. It is true that the distance is less, but it is a connection between two devices that open the way to the quantum Internet.