Dr Boris Hage, Mr Seiji Armstrong, Hans Bachor, Dr Jiri Janousek, Dr Katherine Wagner and Dr Jean-Francois Morizur.
Researchers from The Australian National University have taken a quantum leap towards developing the next-generation super-fast networks needed to drive future computing. Mr Seiji Armstrong, a PhD researcher from the Department of Quantum Science in the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has led a team which has developed a technique that allows for quantum information to travel at higher bandwidth using a beam of light and the phenomenon called entanglement. Mr Armstrong's research is published in Nature. "Broadly speaking, entanglement is when two things are correlated in some way so that by measuring one of them, you can infer information about the other. It is important because without it, it's impossible to teleport quantum information," said Mr Armstrong. "This quirk was discovered by Einstein in 1935 and from the late 1980s people started suggesting that entanglement might be useful for processing information. It turned out that by encoding information into systems that are entangled you can perform computations that are unfeasible for ordinary computers.
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