Quantum Light Manipulation: A Huge Breakthrough for the Quantum Internet.

Researchers have developed a way to convert quantum information from the format used by quantum computers to the format needed for quantum communication. The solution is to transfer the quantum information to a higher-frequency photon, called an optical photon, which is much more resilient against ambient noise. The technology allows the atom to absorb a microwave photon with quantum information and then emit an optical photon with that quantum information. This translation between different modes of quantum information is called "transduction."