We are headed towards a super-secure Quantum Internet

Quantum teleportation can provide us with a foolproof security

Quantum machines are supercomputers with the capability of performing complex calculations on multiple data sets and numerous variables. Quantum Computers offer a clear edge to the efficiency over the traditional transistor-based computer systems. The difference lies in how these two different machines process information.

The traditional computers processed information in the form of bits. These bits are stored on the transistors in either 0 or 1. These two states act as electronic ON-OFF switches performing calculations by alternating between the two states.

Quantum computers, on the other hand, don’t use transistors. They process information with the help of Qubits. What makes Quantum machines so fast is the ability of these Qubits to exist simultaneously in both states 0 and 1, also exhibiting the properties of both states.

Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Vienna in Austria have now been able to send a record amount of data using quantum information unit called a ‘qutrit.’ This move takes us closer to a vastly secure quantum internet. Considering Cybersecurity is a major problem with the conventional Internet, this can…