De Beers to supply quality – flawed – rocks
The secret to unlocking the full potential of quantum networking may be hiding at the center of a diamond, according to Amazon Web Services. This week, AWS popped the question to De Beers subsidiary Element Six in the hope of finding it.entangled"If you have entanglement between two points, it doesn't matter how you achieve that entanglement on the edges of the network.
While this might sound like science fiction, numerous companies – including the likes of British Telecom – have proven the viability of quantum networks. Usually this has been across short distances in limited. Scaling the technology to support larger networks across longer distances remains a challenge – one that Amazon hopes can be solved with diamonds.
The problem is one that optics engineers have grappled with for decades. The farther an optical signal travels, the more likely natural imperfections in the fiber will distort the signal. Traditionally, amplifiers and repeaters have been employed at regular intervals to clean up and boost the signal. This works well for conventional optics networks – but when dealing with the single photons in quantum networks, the tolerances for loss are far, far smaller.
The key difference is that quantum repeaters can correct any loss and infidelity without disrupting the quantum state. In essence, these repeaters are like"a tiny quantum computer," she explained.
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