Padova University, ThinkQuantum Achieve 18km Free-Space QKD

2026-08-27

Researchers from the University of Padova, ThinkQuantum, and CNR-IFN have demonstrated an 18-kilometer intermodal quantum key distribution (QKD) system in a real-time field trial. The experiment utilized room-temperature detectors.

Source: Quantum Computing Report

Reported by VERA Newswire.