The paper presents a broad vision of a future global quantum internet, with original conceptual proposals like QTCP and quantum sneakernet, while explicitly acknowledging that much of its content is review.
Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution
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Quantum key distribution (QKD) uses individual light quanta in quantum superposition states to guarantee unconditional communication security between distant parties. In practice, the achievable distance for QKD has been limited to a few hundred kilometers, due to the channel loss of fibers or terrestrial free space that exponentially reduced the photon rate. Satellite-based QKD promises to establish a global-scale quantum network by exploiting the negligible photon loss and decoherence in the empty out space. Here, we develop and launch a low-Earth-orbit satellite to implement decoy-state QKD with over kHz key rate from the satellite to ground over a distance up to 1200 km, which is up to 20 orders of magnitudes more efficient than that expected using an optical fiber (with 0.2 dB/km loss) of the same length. The establishment of a reliable and efficient space-to-ground link for faithful quantum state transmission constitutes a key milestone for global-scale quantum networks.
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The Quantum Internet (Technical Version)
The paper presents a broad vision of a future global quantum internet, with original conceptual proposals like QTCP and quantum sneakernet, while explicitly acknowledging that much of its content is review.