⚛ Quantum Map
Sixteen active facilities. Computing, communication, research milestones. Click any pin.
⚛ What you're looking at
Sixteen real quantum facilities. Two strategies. Pick around.
Lester's disclaimer. Don't trust any of this — I just pulled it together from peer-reviewed papers and lab press releases. If you want exact numbers, do what Lester does: triangulate it yourself. Check the cited papers. Verify the lab site. This is the milk-crate version.
The color key
Quantum computing (8)
Quantum communication (3)
Satellite QKD (1: Mozi-1)
Research milestones (4)
The two strategies underneath
The dots tell you where. The grouping of the communication pins tells you how:
- 🇨🇳 The Chinese satellite path. Send entangled photons up through ~10 km of atmosphere, bounce off Mozi-1 in vacuum, beam back down to a second station. Spans continents but needs the satellite overhead and dark sky on both ends. See Beijing (IQIQT) ↔ Vienna (IQOQI) — Liao 2018.
- 🇺🇸 The Western fiber path. Push photons through standard telecom fiber. Works 24/7, no weather problem — but you need a trusted node or quantum repeater every ~50–100 km. See the Geneva / Tokyo / Bristol fiber clusters.
How to use this
- Click any pin to read the facility's body text in the right panel.
- Seven pins have per-pin interactives — Toronto's negative-time slider, Yale's five-stage “Window” slider, CERN's Bell-test buttons, the Rigetti/IonQ/D-Wave stock charts, and Mozi's cross-link to the live tracker.
- Direct links deep-link any pin: /map.html#toronto
A teaching observation, not a homework prompt
Notice the satellite pin (Mozi-1, rose) only matters for the Chinese pairings. Every Western pairing leans on fiber and trusted-node repeaters — click Geneva ↔ Tokyo and ask yourself how many handoffs that path actually involves. The right answer isn't on the page; it's downstream of you doing the looking.