The Quantum Internet of the Future

Published on September 20, 2017
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Sources:
https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2017-09/cfqc-cut090817.php
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS4254

https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-internet-is-13-years-away-wait-whats-quantum-internet/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/teleporting-toward-a-quantum-internet
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/514581/government-lab-reveals-quantum-internet-operated-continuously-for-over-two-years/
http://www.cqc2t.org/research/QuantumRepeater
http://www.cqc2t.org/research/quantum_memory
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-envisioning-future-quantum-internet.html
https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/quantum-computing-101
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v543/n7646_supp_out/full/543S2a.html

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