NIST and University of Colorado researchers demonstrated over 99% effectiveness in transmitting photons over a 2 km link of standard optical fiber. The team successfully separated the signals needed for fiber stabilization, trillions of photons per second, from the single photons carrying quantum information, overcoming a significant technical hurdle.

Net-net the experiment illustrated strong separation between the classical light signals and the quantum signals transversing fiber optic cables dramatically reducing sources of error and noise for optic based quantum systems.

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/optica-publishing-stable-quantum/ #Quantum #QuantumComputing #QuantumNetworking #NIST #Photons #Optics #FibreOptics

#mwgic #2026 #Light #Photons #Multidimensional #Quantum #QuantumPhysics #Encryption

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260321012705.htm

Weekend reading with TechAptitude!

Quantum networks hold the potential to enable fundamentally new capabilities, including ultra-secure communication with unbreakable encryption, distributed quantum computing, and hold out the promise of creating a “Quantum Internet”. Check it out!

https://techaptitude.substack.com/p/quantum-networking-ready-for-prime?r=vn8b8 #Quantum #QuantumNetworking #QuantumComputing #Networking #FiberOptics #Optical #Qubits #Photons #QuantumInternet #TechAptitude

#China broke the laws of #quantum #computing with double #photons which makes for #unbreakable #encryption for #cybersecurity

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3345508/quantum-tech-breakthrough-chinas-double-photon-device-breaks-efficiency-ceiling?module=top_story&pgtype=homepage

What would it feel like inside the light

Danielo Home Movies [All last year, I waited for a white dwarf]
Ja'net Danielo

#Poetry #JanetDanielo #HomeMovies #PoetryCurrency #WhiteDwarf #RedGiant #Simulation #Photons

https://poetrycurrency.com/poem/janet-danielo/danielo-home-movies-all-last-year-i-waited-for-a-white-dwarf/

I love #scifi so much. I love the absurd assumptions about realworld physics a little less, especially when there are other means toget the same result. #Astrophysics is where smartypants form an #ourobouros konga line of neverending underinformed pop knowledge.
This zine isn't a pro article but I tried to catch some on the misconceptions. Maybe there will eventually be a longer one, physics is SO COOL!

https://ranarh.itch.io/lightspeed

#lightspeed #photons #ftl #cinema #minizine #zinester #zine

#Photons ... they do the craziest things 😉

#Science #GreenGoblin #Spiderman

Can you make a neutral pion from two photons?

A neutral pion can decay into two photons. It is therefore not unreasonable to ask the question whether the reverse process – the creation of a neutral pion by colliding two photons – is physically possible and, if not, why not? It is perhaps less reasonable to ask an AI bot these questions. One of my colleagues did just that and found it said “no”, giving  the following three answers to the “why not?” question:

I particularly like the second one.

Would anyone like to offer a correct answer through the comments box?

#GenAI #ParticlePhysics #photons #pions