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China's Secure Communications Quantum Leap
A team of 15 Chinese researchers from Tsinghua University in Beijing and the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences, a government-directed research center, in May published a research paper announcing a successful demonstration of "quantum teleportation" over 16 kilometers of free space.
The researchers claimed to have the first successful experiment of its kind in the world. The technology has the potential to revolutionize secure communications for military and intelligence organizations and may become the watershed of a research race in communication and information technology.
Although much of the science behind this technology is still young, quantum technologies have wide-ranging applications for the fields of cryptography, remote sensing and secure satellite communications. In the near future, the results from this experiment will be used to send encrypted messages that cannot be cracked or intercepted, and securely connect networks, even in remote areas, with no wired infrastructure, even incorporating satellites and submarines into the link.
From Asia Times Online
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