Ronald Hanson

Ronald Hanson and a team of academic and industrial partners are working on a first: a quantum internet that cannot be hacked or intercepted and that is based on entangled quantum states that are spatially separate. Two breakthroughs by his own research group have made this possible. The first breakthrough was to achieve quantum entanglement between electron spins that were more than a kilometre’s distance from each other. The second involved controlling a local register of several qubits on a single chip. These breakthroughs were possible because Hanson’s group unites quantum optics, nanotechnology, condensed matter physics and quantum computer science. Hanson was a member of The Young Academy from 2010 to 2015.