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What makes our modern technology tick? Precision timing and synchronization enable today's technology to run reliably. By aligning optical atomic clocks across devices around the world to within the pico-second, systems can safely coordinate high-speed data, enable network security, and accurately log critical events. We're proud that Infleqtion is using ABQ-Net to advance the use of quantum networks to enhance highly precise timing and synchronization. New Mexico's ABQ-Net is the first open-access entanglement-based quantum network in America, running on live fiber today.

Quantum networking worked in the lab for decades. But real-world fiber is noisy, chaotic, and unpredictable, and it degrades quantum signals every time. Qunnect built hardware specifically to solve that fiber problem with Carina's polarization compensation system, which continuously corrects for real-world conditions. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) showed this year that Carina preserves quantum signals across some of the most demanding urban infrastructure in the world. And now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) just awarded Qunnect new funding to advance the next generation of that same system. Qunnect has focused on not only advancing the science behind quantum networking but also developing the technologies needed to make it useful at scale. Alexandra Kelley at Nextgov/FCW has the story 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTpX-7rX

What new capabilities are unlocked when high-quality, narrow bandwidth entangled photons can be broadcast from a satellite, a drone, or a remote sensor instead of a data center rack? We're working with Monarch Quantum, combining their manufacturing and miniaturization expertise with our Carina system, the hardware that anchors the largest entanglement-based quantum networks in the world. Distributing entanglement onto live fiber was one milestone. Moving from data centers to satellites is the next one. What would you deploy if the quantum hardware could go anywhere?

Companies go where the infrastructure exists. The bigger story behind our ABQ-Net work is that Aliro, Infleqtion, Tensora, and Bandelier Technologies are leveraging New Mexico's ABQ-Net, the only open-access entanglement-based quantum network in America. States don't build ecosystems overnight. They invest in the infrastructure and talent that make the research and innovation possible. New Mexico has built the quantum future through its public-private partnerships and economic development strategy—and our news shows those investments are gaining traction and momentum. Matthew Reichbach has the story 👇 https://lnkd.in/gAp2jEMi

Building quantum networking for a data center is one challenge. Building for satellites, remote infrastructure, and networks stretching across much longer distances is another altogether. In 2024, Qunnect became the first company to deploy a commercially available full turnkey entanglement distribution platform inside a third-party data center. And today, we're taking it further, partnering with Monarch Quantum to build smaller, more deployable versions of our hardware as we take quantum networking across the world and beyond. What would you build with quantum networking hardware you could source like any other part or fit in the palm of your hand?

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A pigeon on a wire is a real threat to quantum entanglement. Quantum networking has to survive it anyway. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) outlines on their latest blog post how they sent entangled photons through 62 kilometers of fiber strung above Maryland streets, using Qunnect's polarization-stabilization hardware to hold the entanglement together through wind, sun, and everything else the real world threw at it. The result: 92.8% of photons stayed entangled over a full day, in exposed, above ground conditions NIST physicist yicheng shi called a stress test for quantum networking. Real quantum networks won't run through sealed labs. They'll need to survive on the same exposed, unpredictable infrastructure the internet already does. Read all about it in NIST's latest blog post linked in the comments. Congratulations to the full research team: Yicheng Shi, Jing Su, Anouar Rahmouni, Pranish Shrestha, Mheni Merzouki, Abdella Battou, Oliver (Ollie) Slattery, and Thomas Gerrits at NIST and the Joint Quantum Institute, alongside Qunnect's Mael Flament, Mehdi Namazi, and Gabriel Bello Portmann.

This is the year of quantum. And New Mexico is building the quantum future. ABQ-Net welcomed more than just its first four commercial companies last week, proof the network is already doing real work. We also welcomed staff from Senator Martin Heinrich and Representative Melanie Stansbury's offices who came to tour the nation's only open-access, entanglement-based quantum network. Adriana Reyes Newell from Bandelier Technologies, one of those first four companies, showed them the quantum imaging work they're building on the network right now. Thank you to DeChellie Gray, Dylan Bonner, Quiana Salazar-King, and Savannah (Annie) Quintana-Eddins for joining us at the New Mexico's quantum network.

Quantum security is advancing in New Mexico on ABQ-Net. Aliro is on the network this week demonstrating quantum secure communications, marking the first entanglement-based commercial QKD system running across long-haul aerial fibers in the U.S.. The joint demonstration showcases real-time secure key generation, clock synchronization, and active intrusion detection—all in one stack, operational over 50 km of deployed fiber. Stay tuned for more record-breaking results by this team! They're the first of four companies building on New Mexico's ABQ-Net, the open-access entanglement network anchored by Qunnect's Carina entanglement distribution system. What would it change if your systems caught a break-in the moment it happened?

Nine countries. Two continents. One quantum networking platform. Qunnect's Carina already powers quantum networks in New York City, at Montana State University-Bozeman, and with Deutsche Telekom in Berlin. Now, Aliro, Infleqtion, Tensora, and Bandelier Technologies are live on New Mexico's ABQ-Net—the nation's only open-access, entanglement-based quantum network. This is quantum networking, deployed around the world. What infrastructure would you build alongside so many trusted partners? Dan Meyer for SDxCentral: https://lnkd.in/gUxDFEPN