New multiplexing scheme accelerates long-distance quantum communication

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Researchers have developed a new multiplexing scheme to accelerate long-distance quantum communication, leveraging entanglement in quantum networks. This advancement could significantly enhance the future of secure communications.

Quantum networks, systems consisting of multiple connected nodes or devices that can transmit quantum information to one another, have the potential to advance future communications. These networks typically leverage entanglement, a quantum phenomenon that prompts two or more distant particles to become highly correlated, so that measuring one instantly affects the state of the other.