Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) will be home to a cutting-edge quantum network testbed, thanks to a new five-year, .5 millionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) will be home to a cutting-edge quantum network testbed, thanks to a new five-year, .5 million funding award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). funding award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Led by personnel from Berkeley Lab's Scientific Networking Division/ESnet, UC Berkeley, and Caltech, the R and D collaboration will also leverage quantum development efforts at Berkeley Lab and beyond.
The goal is to build a distributed quantum network between Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley that will help realize the DOE's vision of establishing a nationwide quantum Internet and support the U.S. National Quantum Initiative. Quantum networks leverage the quantum properties of light to encode much more information than the "ones and zeros" of traditional computing. The quantum Internet will enable future capabilities, including distributed quantum sensing, upscaling quantum computing, and enabling highly secure communications.
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