Quantum money
Dinero cuántico
- Date
- c. 1970 / publicado en 1983 · confidence medium
- Place
- New York, United States
- Credited to
- Stephen Wiesner (conceived c. 1970, published 1983)
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Quantum cryptographic protocol for creating banknotes that cannot be forged, based on the no-cloning theorem for quantum states; conceived by Stephen Wiesner around 1970 but only published in 1983.
What it led to
- development of quantum key distribution (QKD)
- modern quantum cryptography protocols
- publicly verifiable quantum money schemes
- theoretical impulse to quantum information science