{"id":20254,"date":"2024-02-08T05:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20254"},"modified":"2025-04-06T00:06:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T18:36:37","slug":"quantum-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/quantum-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Quantum Internet<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a theorized and much sought-after\u00a0network of interconnected quantum computers that will allow people to send, compute, and receive information using quantum technology.<\/li>\n<li>A quantum internet would be a\u00a0network of quantum computers, sensors, and communication devices that will create, process, and transmit quantum states and entanglement.<\/li>\n<li>It is anticipated to enhance society&#8217;s internet system and provide certain services and securities that the current internet does not have.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of the quantum internet is not to replace the internet we know today, but to instead create a co-existent network that can be\u00a0used to solve specific types of problems.<\/li>\n<li>Working\n<ul>\n<li>Quantum computers use fundamental units of information similar to the bits used in classical computing. These are\u00a0called \u201cqubits.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>However, unlike conventional computer bits\u2014which convey information as a 0 or 1\u2014qubits convey information through a\u00a0combination of quantum states, which are unique conditions found only on the\u00a0subatomic scale.<\/li>\n<li>Qubits are not either 0 or 1, but rather both and neither, in a quantum phenomenon called\u00a0superposition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Quantum mechanics?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a subfield of physics that describes the behavior of particles \u2014 atoms, electrons, photons and almost everything in the molecular and submolecular realm. Developed during the first half of the 20th century, the results of quantum mechanics are often extremely strange and counterintuitive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-02-team-fundamental-functioning-quantum-internet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Research team takes a fundamental step toward a functioning quantum internet<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum Internet is a theorized and much sought-after network of interconnected quantum computers that will allow people to send, compute, and receive information using quantum technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}