How can drums help build the quantum internet? - A quantum scientist explains | Quantum Minutes

How can drums help build the quantum internet?
Today's' host, Dr. Irene Sánchez Arribas, completed her doctoral research in the group of Prof. Eva M. Weig, at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching, Germany. In her research, she studies the interaction of the light confined in an optical cavity with mechanical resonators (tiny drums) made of hexagonal boron nitride, a material with quantum properties. In this Quantum Minutes episode, she will tell you how such an experimental platform could help bridge the gap towards the quantum internet!

In the Quantum Minutes series, our scientists explain fundamental quantum terms in an easy and understandable manner. The videos are shot in their actual research facilities where state-of-the-art quantum science is being carried out.

The Munich Center for Quantum Science & Technology is an excellence cluster of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The cluster consists of renowned institutions such as LMU München, TUM, Walther-Meißner-Institute, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, and the Deutsches Museum.

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Group Prof. Weig

[helicalactual]

so when you generate an artificially entangled system, its very difficult to keep out the "noise" or interference. if the quantum computers are sensitive to other entities or entanglement structures, then other entanglement structures such as another quantum computer requiring thermo-dynamic stability that would generate a lot of waste heat and energy, manifesting a decoherence problem thusly thinning the entanglement for all computers. much like heat from CPU processors, but instead of heat, it's because entanglement is fragile and so thermodynamically expensive to maintain artificial entanglement. as a result, very difficult to get the systems to "speak to one another".

[helicalactual]

basically there is more entanglement that can pass through the system. the photons build into a field and then the varying pulses of light are able to be translated into an energy field that can respond to the entanglement and then vibrate that energy down the given wire to the intended system.

[excelelmira]

The magnitude of force of Sun light shining on a person is equal to the weight of a grain of salt? That's actually way stronger than I expected!

[bijoychandraroy]

one step at a time we are getting closer to the day when we all will have supercomputers in our pockets.

[EskiMoThor]

Why are you taunting me? The internet runs on fiber optics.
Bleh, I can't get fiber in my neighborhood, just old fashioned copper wires with 25-50 Mbps transfer rates. Just 10 minutes walk away there is 10Gbps fiber offered to all residents.
Can I tell the telecoms people that quantum computing internet is a human right and they need to give me direct access to fiber?