{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Liu HY"],"funding":["National Key R&D Program of China","National Natural Science Foundation of China","Key R&D Program of Guangdong Province","Excellent Research Program of Nanjing University"],"pagination":["921-928"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8446934"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7(5)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Satellites have shown free-space quantum-communication ability; however, they are orbit-limited from full-time all-location coverage. Meanwhile, practical quantum networks require satellite constellations, which are complicated and expensive, whereas the airborne mobile quantum communication may be a practical alternative to offering full-time all-location multi-weather coverage in a cost-effective way. Here, we demonstrate the first mobile entanglement distribution based on drones, realizing multi-weather operation including daytime and rainy nights, with a Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt S-parameter measured to be 2.41 ± 0.14 and 2.49 ± 0.06, respectively. Such a system shows unparalleled mobility, flexibility and reconfigurability compared to the existing satellite and fiber-based quantum co"],"journal":["National science review"],"pubmed_title":["Drone-based entanglement distribution towards mobile quantum networks."],"pmcid":["PMC8446934"],"funding_grant_id":["2018B030329001","11674169","ZYJH002","51890861","91321312","11621091","2017YFA0303700"],"pubmed_authors":["Hu X","Xie Z","Fan P","Lu YQ","Zhang JN","Tian XH","Gu C","Liu HY","Guo J","Cao X","Ni X","Zhu SN","Hu M","Zhao G","Yang R","Gong YX"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Drone-based entanglement distribution towards mobile quantum networks.","description":"Satellites have shown free-space quantum-communication ability; however, they are orbit-limited from full-time all-location coverage. Meanwhile, practical quantum networks require satellite constellations, which are complicated and expensive, whereas the airborne mobile quantum communication may be a practical alternative to offering full-time all-location multi-weather coverage in a cost-effective way. Here, we demonstrate the first mobile entanglement distribution based on drones, realizing multi-weather operation including daytime and rainy nights, with a Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt S-parameter measured to be 2.41 ± 0.14 and 2.49 ± 0.06, respectively. Such a system shows unparalleled mobility, flexibility and reconfigurability compared to the existing satellite and fiber-based quantum co","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 May","modification":"2025-04-22T03:11:14.414Z","creation":"2025-04-05T20:41:13.825Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8446934","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34691535"],"doi":["10.1093/nsr/nwz227"]}}