Physics

The Key Device Needed for a Quantum Internet

Erika K. Carlson

Published Jun 30, 2020• 1 citation

Abstract

A dvances in quantum information science have brought on the possibility of a quantum internet-networks that carry information via photons in superpositions of states, called qubits, rather than the 0's and 1's that today's networks shuttle from place to place.

DOI: 10.1103/physics.13.104

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