City-wide quantum communication network in China is most advanced yet


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Quantum reminiscence is a giant advance in quantum networks

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Probably the most superior quantum communication community but sprawls via the Chinese language metropolis of Hefei. Comprising three quantum units and a central server, it’s as near an unhackable quantum web as we’ve gotten but.

Constructed by Jian-Lengthy Liu on the College of Science and Know-how of China and his colleagues, the community shares some options with standard communication networks, resembling transmitting data via optical fibres. However the gentle travelling within the quantum community is available in chunks whose quantum …