[Special Stock] Hankook Advanced Materials Transfers Quantum Entanglement Photon Technology... Rises Amid Spotlight on US Quantum Computer-Related Stocks

Korea Advanced Materials is showing strong performance. This is interpreted as being influenced by the news that it has received a technology transfer for quantum entangled photon technology from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).

As of 9:31 AM on the 18th, Korea Advanced Materials is trading at 2,000 KRW, up 16.96% compared to the previous day.

Korea Advanced Materials, a company specializing in optical communication, announced that it has completed the technology transfer for the quantum entangled photon pair generation technology jointly developed by ETRI and KAIST.

The transferred technology is based on the PPLN (Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate) photonic integrated circuit developed by the Quantum Technology Research Division of the AI Computing Research Institute at ETRI, which generates pairs of quantum entangled photons.

This technology is essential for implementing quantum teleportation, multi-node, and long-distance quantum networks, and is utilized in various advanced applications such as quantum cryptography communication, quantum computing, and the quantum internet.

Korea Advanced Materials has developed an optical interferometer module, a key component of the quantum key distribution (QKD) system that plays an important role in quantum cryptography communication, and supplies products to the European quantum cryptography company Swiss ID Quantique (IDQ).

Quantum computers are called the "dream computers" because they enable ultra-high-speed calculations beyond supercomputers. By utilizing the principles of quantum mechanics, they can solve complex problems at high speed, attracting attention in various fields such as new drug development, materials science, financial modeling, and artificial intelligence.

With research results showing performance surpassing existing supercomputers, expectations for commercialization are rising, highlighting quantum computers as a new "game changer." Recently, when news broke that Google developed a quantum computer equipped with its own quantum chip named Willow, Alphabet, Google's parent company, saw its stock price hit a record high on the New York Stock Exchange.