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Physicists Demonstrate First Metro-Area Quantum Computer Network in Boston

A simple internet with significant possibilities
Map showing path of two-node quantum network through Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: Can Knaut via OpenStreetMap

It’s one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It’s quite another to physically show it’s possible.

That’s exactly what Harvard physicists have done, using existing Boston-area telecommunication fiber, in a demonstration of the world’s longest fiber distance between two quantum memory nodes to date. Think of it as a simple, closed internet between point A and B, carrying a signal encoded not by classical bits like the existing internet, but by perfectly secure, individual particles of light.

The groundbreaking work, titled “Entanglement of nanopho...

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