An unhackable quantum internet is being built in New York City


Qunnect's entanglement source

Qunnect’s entanglement supply

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

In an workplace overlooking an previous shipyard in Brooklyn, I’m studying that I could have walked over some entangled quantum mild on my method right here.

For the reason that earlier night, researchers at Qunnect have been sending particles of sunshine, or photons, by a 34-kilometre-long loop of optical fibre beneath New York. Their strategy preserves the particular quantum property of entanglement that can enable them to finally use this loop as a place to begin for a quantum web.

In a quantum web, gadgets talk by exchanging quantum particles, like …