Particles can carry information securely because intercepting them would alter the message and alert the receiver or sender. Researchers in Nanjing have condensed the quantum equipment and packed it into a drone. — SCMP
Chinese scientists say they have developed the world’s first fleet of drones equipped with quantum communication technology so that robots can share information securely with each other and human operators.
Researchers at Nanjing University, in eastern China, built drones able to generate pairs of “entangled” particles of light that could carry information in quantum states such as charges or polarisations representing 0 or 1, according to their paper published this month in the journal National Science Review.
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