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Okay, folks, I'm gonna have to do a long thread on . Keep your eyes peeled...

rdviii,
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So what about the other two? First we need to know about the difference between entangled and unentangled quantum networks. QKD can run either with or without entanglement.

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Networks that provide quantum entanglement as a service are much, much broader in potential applications, but are much, much harder to build.

rdviii,
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I'm lumping several different things together in the category of sensor networks. Examples include high-precision clock synchronization, improved resolution in arrays of telescopes, and the like.

rdviii,
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These are great theoretical ideas, but are incredibly challenging to implement and require VERY high rates of entanglement generation.

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(Entanglement is a consumable; once you have used it once, it's gone, so "data rates" for making new entanglement are critical.)

rdviii,
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While it's not the same thing as the entangled #QuantumInternet, one use of related technology is in production in LIGO, the gravitational wave observatory, which uses squeezed light:
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20231023

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So the sensor networks are attractive but difficult, especially when doing the engineering of the classical interface and control and worrying about noise.

rdviii,
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Which brings us to distributed .

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Which in turn requires us to talk about types of network deployments, which don't get enough attention, IMO, though that's improving a little.

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Especially, we need to understand that there are similarities and differences between system interconnects or data center networks and wide-area networks.
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1900586

rdviii,
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It's critical to know that scaling up quantum computers requires entanglement between quantum processors. If we want to use two small quantum computers to solve one larger problem, we MUST be able to create inter-node entanglement.

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A network of small nodes coupled via an entangling interconnect is what I call a quantum multicomputer. We talked about designs like this in the #QuantumComputerArchitecture tweetstorm.
https://zenodo.org/records/3496597

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It's a MUST, a GOTTA HAVE, a NOT OPTIONAL technology. It's by far the clearest argument in favor of a quantum network.

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No entanglement, no scalability.

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Beyond that, what about wide-area entangling networks? One of my favorite ideas of the last two decades is blind quantum computation, by Broadbent, Kashefi and Fitzsimons.
https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4154

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