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IEEE Spectrum

China's 2,000-km quantum link is almost complete [News]

Rachel E. Courtland

Published Oct 24, 2016• 49 citations
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Abstract

By the end of this year, a team led by researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, aims to put the finishing touches on a 2,000-kilometer-long fiber-optic link that will wind its way from Beijing in the north to the coastal city of Shanghai.
DOI
10.1109/mspec.2016.7607012

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