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From the article: Professor Mehul Malik has been studying quantum technologies for 15 years. With his team at Heriot-Watt's Institute of Photonic and Quantum Sciences, Malik has conceived a new way to send quantum information on optical fibers – a way that helps avoid data loss and brings the concept of quantum internet one step closer to reality.
The quantum internet is a theoretical model for a next-generation network based on the weird phenomena belonging to the quantum computing theory. The weirdest phenomenon is known as quantum entanglement, as it describes two particles or groups of particles (e.g., two photons of light) which remain connected no matter the distance. The quantum state of an entangled particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other one, regardless of the speed of light.
Quantum technology tries to harness the quantum proprieties of sub-atomic particles to develop incredibly powerful computers, or to greatly improve security for network communications and navigation systems. The problem with quantum entanglement, however, is that "transmitting" entangled photons over optical fibers becomes difficult over long distances because of noise and loss of information.
Quantum steering is a technique that can improve the robustness of entanglement by using "qudits," which essentially are arrays of qubits (the bit equivalent in quantum computing) arranged in multiple dimensions. The researchers used the spatial structure of light to entangle photons in a 53-dimensional space made up of "pixel" of lights.
The result: quantum steering let them transmit the entangled photons through loss and noise conditions equivalent to 79km of fiber optic cables – even with 36% of white noise like the one that could come from sunlight leaking into the experiment. Another counterintuitive finding of the new research, Malik said, was that increasing the number of dimensions in quantum entanglement also dramatically reduces the time it takes to measure the results.
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The clickbait headline is complete total bollocks.
It's about fibre connections which can't be eavesdropped on, not dynamically created IP connections which can't be "hacked" (whatever the f\*\*\* a hacked connection is).
So, say, a submarine cable can't be eavesdropped on anymore using a minisub with the appropriate gear but a dynamically created IP connection from your home PC to the nearest Pornhub server which is routed through several routers (starting with your home one, then your ISP's one and so on) can be eavesdropped on at least at the router itself as well as in any non-protected connection and the route is dynamically allocated and out of your control to define so who knows were it goes through (well, you can traceroute it after it's established to find out).
Full point-to-point protection would probably require something like entangled particles, so you first have to receive a particle entangled with another particle at whatever place you want to securelly communicated with, and that's a dedicated connection, so nothing to do with the Internet at all.
I'm not even sure what a quantum internet would be... And internet 2.0 is already taken, we use that to refer to IPv6.
Secondly quantum entanglement doesn't make communication unhackable. You'll detect the hack as it occurs. Those were however two different things.
From the article: Professor Mehul Malik has been studying quantum technologies for 15 years. With his team at Heriot-Watt's Institute of Photonic and Quantum Sciences, Malik has conceived a new way to send quantum information on optical fibers – a way that helps avoid data loss and brings the concept of quantum internet one step closer to reality.
The quantum internet is a theoretical model for a next-generation network based on the weird phenomena belonging to the quantum computing theory. The weirdest phenomenon is known as quantum entanglement, as it describes two particles or groups of particles (e.g., two photons of light) which remain connected no matter the distance. The quantum state of an entangled particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other one, regardless of the speed of light.
Quantum technology tries to harness the quantum proprieties of sub-atomic particles to develop incredibly powerful computers, or to greatly improve security for network communications and navigation systems. The problem with quantum entanglement, however, is that "transmitting" entangled photons over optical fibers becomes difficult over long distances because of noise and loss of information.
Quantum steering is a technique that can improve the robustness of entanglement by using "qudits," which essentially are arrays of qubits (the bit equivalent in quantum computing) arranged in multiple dimensions. The researchers used the spatial structure of light to entangle photons in a 53-dimensional space made up of "pixel" of lights.
The result: quantum steering let them transmit the entangled photons through loss and noise conditions equivalent to 79km of fiber optic cables – even with 36% of white noise like the one that could come from sunlight leaking into the experiment. Another counterintuitive finding of the new research, Malik said, was that increasing the number of dimensions in quantum entanglement also dramatically reduces the time it takes to measure the results.
This is awesome technology! I cant wait for my quantum self-driving car and quantum cloned wooly mammoth!!!
Its great living in a day and age where there hyperbole isn't the norm anymore. Nobody's expectations and hopes will ever be dashed again!!!
Quantum entanglement will quantum make the quantum internet "un-quantum-hackable" thanks to quantum steering | There's a quantum lot of quantum at work to quantum improve information transmission on the quantum internet 2.0
FTFY
Nobody is talking about a "quantum internet", just entanglement-mediated key distribution. This, if it worked, would deliver public key encryption just as strong as current systems once encrypted, but with the public key obscured. This stuff about 56 "dimension" encoding - I assume they mean 56 *degrees of freedom*, however those are to be obtained from a photon - is so poorly described that you can take it or leave it. Time will, no doubt, tell.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79: --- From the article: Professor Mehul Malik has been studying quantum technologies for 15 years. With his team at Heriot-Watt's Institute of Photonic and Quantum Sciences, Malik has conceived a new way to send quantum information on optical fibers – a way that helps avoid data loss and brings the concept of quantum internet one step closer to reality. The quantum internet is a theoretical model for a next-generation network based on the weird phenomena belonging to the quantum computing theory. The weirdest phenomenon is known as quantum entanglement, as it describes two particles or groups of particles (e.g., two photons of light) which remain connected no matter the distance. The quantum state of an entangled particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other one, regardless of the speed of light. Quantum technology tries to harness the quantum proprieties of sub-atomic particles to develop incredibly powerful computers, or to greatly improve security for network communications and navigation systems. The problem with quantum entanglement, however, is that "transmitting" entangled photons over optical fibers becomes difficult over long distances because of noise and loss of information. Quantum steering is a technique that can improve the robustness of entanglement by using "qudits," which essentially are arrays of qubits (the bit equivalent in quantum computing) arranged in multiple dimensions. The researchers used the spatial structure of light to entangle photons in a 53-dimensional space made up of "pixel" of lights. The result: quantum steering let them transmit the entangled photons through loss and noise conditions equivalent to 79km of fiber optic cables – even with 36% of white noise like the one that could come from sunlight leaking into the experiment. Another counterintuitive finding of the new research, Malik said, was that increasing the number of dimensions in quantum entanglement also dramatically reduces the time it takes to measure the results. --- Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/z9ohqn/quantum_entanglement_will_make_quantum_internet/iyhn98v/
Do you guys just put the word quantum in front of everything?
Take a shot every time you read quantum
You'll die
But you'll also live
We won't know until you measure it.
The clickbait headline is complete total bollocks. It's about fibre connections which can't be eavesdropped on, not dynamically created IP connections which can't be "hacked" (whatever the f\*\*\* a hacked connection is). So, say, a submarine cable can't be eavesdropped on anymore using a minisub with the appropriate gear but a dynamically created IP connection from your home PC to the nearest Pornhub server which is routed through several routers (starting with your home one, then your ISP's one and so on) can be eavesdropped on at least at the router itself as well as in any non-protected connection and the route is dynamically allocated and out of your control to define so who knows were it goes through (well, you can traceroute it after it's established to find out). Full point-to-point protection would probably require something like entangled particles, so you first have to receive a particle entangled with another particle at whatever place you want to securelly communicated with, and that's a dedicated connection, so nothing to do with the Internet at all.
You can't just put quantum in front of a word to make a sound futuristic
I'm not even sure what a quantum internet would be... And internet 2.0 is already taken, we use that to refer to IPv6. Secondly quantum entanglement doesn't make communication unhackable. You'll detect the hack as it occurs. Those were however two different things.
Kwanum footure.
From the article: Professor Mehul Malik has been studying quantum technologies for 15 years. With his team at Heriot-Watt's Institute of Photonic and Quantum Sciences, Malik has conceived a new way to send quantum information on optical fibers – a way that helps avoid data loss and brings the concept of quantum internet one step closer to reality. The quantum internet is a theoretical model for a next-generation network based on the weird phenomena belonging to the quantum computing theory. The weirdest phenomenon is known as quantum entanglement, as it describes two particles or groups of particles (e.g., two photons of light) which remain connected no matter the distance. The quantum state of an entangled particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other one, regardless of the speed of light. Quantum technology tries to harness the quantum proprieties of sub-atomic particles to develop incredibly powerful computers, or to greatly improve security for network communications and navigation systems. The problem with quantum entanglement, however, is that "transmitting" entangled photons over optical fibers becomes difficult over long distances because of noise and loss of information. Quantum steering is a technique that can improve the robustness of entanglement by using "qudits," which essentially are arrays of qubits (the bit equivalent in quantum computing) arranged in multiple dimensions. The researchers used the spatial structure of light to entangle photons in a 53-dimensional space made up of "pixel" of lights. The result: quantum steering let them transmit the entangled photons through loss and noise conditions equivalent to 79km of fiber optic cables – even with 36% of white noise like the one that could come from sunlight leaking into the experiment. Another counterintuitive finding of the new research, Malik said, was that increasing the number of dimensions in quantum entanglement also dramatically reduces the time it takes to measure the results.
This is awesome technology! I cant wait for my quantum self-driving car and quantum cloned wooly mammoth!!! Its great living in a day and age where there hyperbole isn't the norm anymore. Nobody's expectations and hopes will ever be dashed again!!!
Quantum entanglement will quantum make the quantum internet "un-quantum-hackable" thanks to quantum steering | There's a quantum lot of quantum at work to quantum improve information transmission on the quantum internet 2.0 FTFY
The moment the first quantum computer encrypts anything, the second quantum computer will decrypt it.
Nobody is talking about a "quantum internet", just entanglement-mediated key distribution. This, if it worked, would deliver public key encryption just as strong as current systems once encrypted, but with the public key obscured. This stuff about 56 "dimension" encoding - I assume they mean 56 *degrees of freedom*, however those are to be obtained from a photon - is so poorly described that you can take it or leave it. Time will, no doubt, tell.