Five years ago, the quantum community met to prepare the first document concerning a vision to develop a quantum internet in the United States. At the end of February, the group met again to celebrate the progress that has been made and to imagine the possibilities of quadrums for quantum technology.
The workshop of the City Hall Quantum Networks and domestic cooperation took place on February 27 and 28 at the Sany Global Center in Midtown Manhattan. The event, a component of the quantum science collaboration by Stony Brook with the University of Columbia, the University of Yale and Brookhaven National Laboratorybrought together 93 participants representing 45 different organizations from around the world, including the best quantum researchers and collaborators of key partners in industry, university and government.
“The aim of this event was to explore how to coordinate a federated quantum network infrastructure and allow members to use the Scy -qnet laboratory (Stony Brook – Columbia – Yale Quantum Network),” said Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook Innovation Presidential Innovation, professor and director of the teacher and director of EDEN Figueroa, Stony Brook Innovation Presidential Innovation, professor and director of the professor of the professor and director of the professor of the professor and director of The The The The Stony Brook Innovation Sendow Distributed quantum treatment center. “This meeting of the town hall brought together our community to promote open scientific dialogue and collect reference data to help develop a development plan for diverse workforce. To do this, we need the participation of the entire quantum community of science and information engineering. ”
The first day presented presentations of experts in the quantum region, including virtual speakers from China, Singapore, Germany and Sweden. After a morning of presentations, Figueroa led a quantum virtual laboratory and the participants then experienced a poster session featuring the work of Stony Brook, Columbia and Yale students.
The second day, led by government partners from the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), presented presentations highlighting various aspects of quantum networks and ended with a round table, “facilitate the collaboration of the industry”.
The event aimed to collect precious contributions in preparation for the next time National quantum virtual laboratory (NQVL) Design proposal due April 2025. “This event presented the crucial partnerships that will stimulate the future quantum internet,” said Nina Maung, main associate vice-president for research. “Stony Brook is ready to be a national leader in this revolutionary area.”
Figueroa said that quantum networks are a front leap in quantum communication technology, promising unprecedented safety and efficiency levels. “I think we can all agree that one of the most important technical achievements that humanity has ever been able to create the Internet,” he said. “The information transmitted on the Internet is laser pulses that cross the fibers. But they undergo the same challenges as drivers on a highway; If there are too many of these laser pulses at the same time, then you get a bottleneck. ”
The use of photons instead of pulses can change this.
“Quantum technology will help us to go to the next level while using the dorsal spine of the Internet that we already have,” said Figueroa. “It is planned to be an advanced quantum network and will connect the quantum processing units located in all participating institutions via a quantum tangle transmitted using quantum repeaters.”
Figueroa said that the project, announced in 2024 and led by Stony Brook, has the potential to stimulate the scaling of quantum computer systems via quantum networks, forming a first version of the quantum internet.
Funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the initiative Mark a central moment in the progress of quantum information sciences and technologies (QIST) in the United States. The team’s proposal, NQVL: QSTD: Pilot: quantum network of large region to demonstrate the quantum advantage (Scy-qnet)Target to design and implement a quantum network of 10 nodes connecting advanced laboratories from Stony Brook University, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Columbia and the University of Yale, creating the Scy-Qnet.
– Robert Emproto