The Trump administration's 2021 budget request contains $237 million in funding to build a quantum internet.
by about 20%, to $237 million. Of that, the DOE has requested $25 million to accelerate the development of a quantum internet. Such a network would leverage the counterintuitive behavior of nature's particles to manipulate and share information in entirely new ways, with the potential to reinvent fields including cybersecurity and material science.
A quantum internet will develop in fits and starts, much like the traditional internet did and continues to do. China has already realized an early application, quantum encryption, between certain cities, but fully quantum networks spanning entire countries will take decades, experts say. Building it will require re-engineering the quantum equivalent of routers, hard drives, and computers from the ground up — foundational work already under way today.
Quantum particles can also be yoked together in a relationship called entanglement, such as when two photons shine from the same source. Pairs of entangled particles share an intimate bond akin to the relationship between the two faces of a coin — when one face shows heads the other displays tails. Unlike a coin, however, entangled particles can travel far from each other and maintain their connection.
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