![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081106073951im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Researchers Take Step Toward Creating Quantum Computers Using Entangled Photons in Optical Fibers
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April 4, 2008
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Prem Kumar and his research group at Northwestern University are one step closer to realizing distributed quantum computing. The group recently demonstrated one of the basic building blocks for distributed quantum computing using entangled photons generated in optical fibers. Their research was published in the April 4, 2008 edition of Physical Review Letters.
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