I’m back from my trip to Waterloo, Ontario – Canada’s “Quantum Valley” – but there is still so much to tell. The photograph above is of Thomas Jennewein of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), who took me on a tour of his lab earlier this week.
Jennewein is standing next to a quantum receiver that he and his colleagues will soon be bolting to a pick-up truck and driving around Waterloo. The plan is to receive quantum communications from a light source that’s on the roof of one of IQC’s buildings. The ultimate goal of the research is to deploy quantum receivers (and transmitters) in space to create a global quantum-communication network.
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