<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">"Quantum computers are making all the headlines these days, but quantum communication technology may actually be closer to practical implementation. In a bid to hasten its arrival, researchers have now mapped out the path to a quantum internet.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">The building blocks for these emerging technologies are more or less the same. They both use qubits to encode information—</span><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">the </span><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">quantum equivalent to computer bits that can simultaneously be both 1 and 0 thanks to the phenomena of superposition. And they both rely on entanglement to inextricably link the quantum states of these qubits so that acting on one affects the other.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:proxima-nova,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:26px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:26px"><span lang="en-US" style="box-sizing:border-box">But while building <a href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/08/12/a-student-took-down-one-of-quantum-computings-top-applications-now-what/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(237,102,41);text-decoration-line:none">quantum computers</a> capable of outperforming conventional ones on useful problems will require very large networks of qubits, you only need a handful to build useful communication networks."</span></p></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/22/from-quantum-computing-to-a-quantum-internet-a-roadmap/">https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/22/from-quantum-computing-to-a-quantum-internet-a-roadmap/</a></font><br></div></div></div>