An unhackable quantum internet is being built in New York City

In an workplace overlooking an previous shipyard in Brooklyn, I’m studying that I could have walked over some entangled quantum gentle on my means right here.

Since the earlier night, researchers at Qunnect have been sending particles of sunshine, or photons, by way of a 34-kilometre-long loop of optical fibre beneath New York. Their method preserves the particular quantum property of entanglement that may enable them to ultimately use this loop as a place to begin for a quantum web.

In a quantum web, gadgets talk by exchanging quantum particles, like …