With rapid development of quantum computers comes need to provide connectivity between quantum computers over short and long distances
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Prof Dan Kilper, Connect
25 July 2022
A total of €3 million in funding has been allocated to the US-Ireland quantum internet foundations R&D partnership.
The investment in the Convergent Quantum Research Alliance in Telecommunications (CoQREATE) partnership will fund at least ten research positions across four large research centres.
With the rapid development of quantum computers, there is a need to develop a quantum internet to provide connectivity between quantum computers over short and long distances.
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Quantum computers have the potential to perform many computing tasks faster than classical computers, in some cases solving problems that are impossible for classical computers to solve with today’s computing power. This includes solving problems in a wide range of technologies such as higher energy density batteries and better carbon capture materials that will be valuable tools to address climate change.
Linking quantum computers together over a quantum internet will enable distributed quantum computing with even greater computational power compared to individual quantum computers.
A quantum internet would also enable distributed quantum applications that promise to enhance cybersecurity and achieve higher resolution sensing. As an integral part of future communications, this quantum internet will need to co-exist and interoperate with current or ‘classical’ networks that we use today – both for its own operation as well as to bring value to real world probl ..
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