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The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)

Networks that harness entanglement and teleportation could enable leaps in security, computing and science.
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Stephanie Wehner

Stephanie Wehner is part of the team trying to build a true quantum network across Europe. Credit: Marcel Wogram for Nature

Before she became a theoretical physicist, Stephanie Wehner was a hacker. Like most people in that arena, she taught herself from an early age. At 15, she spent her savings on her first dial-up modem, to use at her parents’ home in Würzburg, Germany. And by 20, she had gained enough street cred to land a job in Amsterdam, at a Dutch Internet provider started by fellow hackers.

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Nature 554, 289-292 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-01835-3

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  • Correction 22 February 2018: An earlier version of this story stated that Ronald Hanson is leading the construction of the Dutch demonstration network. The project has three co-leaders.

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