ARAQNE: Alliance for Research and Applications of Quantum Network Entanglement

量子科学和技术为新一代通信、计算和传感提供了巨大的机遇。这一新范式的核心是纠缠，这是量子系统的一种微妙属性，赋予了这些方法促进复杂计算或确保安全通信的独特能力。通过创建和扩展大小距离的纠缠，量子互联网成为可能，扩大了这项技术的覆盖范围，就像当前的互联网增强了经典计算的能力一样。量子网络纠缠研究和应用联盟ARAQNE将通过将加拿大学术界和工业界的量子网络领先者联系在一起的专业知识，推动并将量子网络转化为商业有用的水平。ARAQNE将研究人员和从业者聚集在一起，专注于地面量子网络中的悬而未决的问题，最终使用合作伙伴TELUS和卡尔加里市部署的真实世界光纤网络进行试验台演示。该财团将调查和开发与量子互联网的两个用例兼容的协议和平台，这两个用例都具有重大潜在影响：分布式量子计算和安全量子通信，这两个分别是合作伙伴纠缠网络和量子桥技术的运营重点。通过合作，ARAQNE将使加拿大成为地面量子网络的领导者，建立国内建设加拿大量子网络所需技术的能力，并培训一代研究人员，他们将成为加拿大人实现量子互联网的人，因为他们发现了这些公司，并与业界合作，将量子纠缠网络从海上扩展到海洋。

Quantum science and technology present remarkable opportunities for a new generation of communications, computation, and sensing. At the core of this new paradigm is entanglement, a delicate property of quantum systems that gives these approaches their unique abilities to facilitate complex computations or ensure secure communications. By creating and extending entanglement over distances large and small, a quantum internet becomes possible, expanding the reach of this technology in the same way the current internet enhances the capacity for classical computing. ARAQNE, the Alliance for Research and Applications of Quantum Network Entanglement, will advance and translate quantum networking to the level of commercial usefulness, by connecting the expertise that links Canada's leaders in quantum networking from academia and industry. ARAQNE brings together researchers and practitioners to focus on outstanding issues in ground-based quantum networking, culminating in testbed demonstrations using the real-world, deployed fiber optic network of partners TELUS and the City of Calgary. The consortium will investigate and develop the protocols and platforms compatible with two use-cases of the quantum internet, both with significant potential impacts: distributed quantum computing and secure quantum communications, which are at the focus of operations for partners Entangled Networks and Quantum Bridge Technologies, respectively. Working in partnership, ARAQNE will establish Canada as a leader in ground-based quantum networking, establish domestic capacity for the technologies needed to build Canada's quantum network, and train a generation of researchers who will be the ones to make the quantum internet a reality for Canadians, as they found the companies and work with industry to extend a web of quantum entanglement from sea to sea to sea.