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Demonstration of quantum network protocols over a 14-km urban fiber link

Quantum Physics 2024-04-09 v1 Optics

Abstract

We report on the implementation of quantum entanglement distribution and quantum state teleportation over a 14.4-km urban dark-fiber link, which is partially underground, partially overhead, and patched in several stations. We characterize the link for its use as a quantum channel and realize its active polarization stabilization. Using a type-II cavity-enhanced SPDC photon pair source, a 40^{40}Ca+^{+} single-ion quantum memory, and quantum frequency conversion to the telecom C-band, we demonstrate photon-photon entanglement, ion-photon entanglement, and teleportation of a qubit state from the ion onto a remote telecom photon, all realized over the urban fiber link.

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@article{arxiv.2404.04958,
  title  = {Demonstration of quantum network protocols over a 14-km urban fiber link},
  author = {Stephan Kucera and Christian Haen and Elena Arenskötter and Tobias Bauer and Jonas Meiers and Marlon Schäfer and Ross Boland and Milad Yahyapour and Maurice Lessing and Ronald Holzwarth and Christoph Becher and Jürgen Eschner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04958},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 13 figures, including appendix