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Quantum state teleportation represents a pillar of quantum information and a milestone on the roadmap towards quantum networks with a large number of nodes. Successful photonic demonstrations of this protocol have been carried out employing…

A one-dimensional waveguide enables a single two-level emitter to route the propagation of a single photon, as to provide a quantum mirror or a quantum beamsplitter. Here we present a fully-quantum Mach-Zehnder interferometer (QMZ) for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Nelson Almeida , Thiago Werlang , Daniel Valente

We report the first experimental realization of a scalable basic cell for quantum routing, enabling coherent control and exchange of microwave photons between two spatially separated superconducting waveguides coupled via a single transmon…

Quantum networking can be realized by distributing pairs of entangled qubits between remote quantum processing nodes. Devoted communication qubits within each node can naturally interface with photons which bus quantum information between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Ely Novakoski , Jungsang Kim

Quantum emitters coupled to nanophotonic structures are an excellent platform for controllable single-photon scattering. The tunable light-matter interaction enables the construction of a single-photon switch -- a device that can route a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Mateusz Duda , Nicholas J. Martin , Eve O. Mills , Luke R. Wilson , Pieter Kok

We demonstrate controlled entanglement routing between bunching and antibunching path-entangled two-photon states in an unbalanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer (UMZI), in which the routing process is controlled by the relative phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-05 Qiang Zhou , Shuai Dong , Wei Zhang , Lixing You , Yuhao He , Weijun Zhang , Yidong Huang , Jiangde Peng

A quantum network combines the benefits of quantum systems regarding secure information transmission and calculational speed-up by employing quantum coherence and entanglement to store, transmit, and process information. A promising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Christoph Kurz , Michael Schug , Pascal Eich , Jan Huwer , Philipp Müller , Jürgen Eschner

We propose an experimentally accessible single-photon routing scheme using a $\bigtriangleup$-type three-level atom embedded in quantum multi-channels composed of coupled-resonator waveguides. Via the on-demand classical field applied to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 Lan Zhou , Li-Ping Yang , Yong Li , C. P. Sun

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

We propose a waveguide-cavity coupled system to achieve the routing of photons by the phases of other photons. Our router has four input ports and four output ports. The transport of the coherent-state photons injected through any input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Wei-Bin Yan , Bao Liu , Ling Zhou , Heng Fan

For quantum computation using photons, performing deterministic quantum gate operations is a challenge due to the probabilistic nature of the photon-photon interaction. Encoding qubits in multiple degrees-of-freedom of photons and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Kanad Sengupta , S. P. Dinesh , K. Muhammed Shafi , Soumya Asokan , C. M. Chandrashekar

We examine a quantum routing mechanism utilizing a giant-atom-like array coupled to two one-dimensional waveguides. The giant-atom-like array is formed by a one-dimensional array of three-level-systems. In the regime of strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Alexis R. Legón , Mario Miranda , P. A. Orellana

Many protocols of quantum information processing, like quantum key distribution or measurement-based quantum computation, "consume" entangled quantum states during their execution. When participants are located at distant sites, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Michael Epping , Hermann Kampermann , Dagmar Bruß

We propose a simple interaction protocol to be implemented on a scalable quantum network, in which the quantum nodes consist of qubit systems confined in cavities. The nodes are deterministically coupled by transmission and reflection of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 I. Cohen , K. Mølmer

Quantum information processing, communication, and sensing networks are being developed with various qubit platforms that use different encoding schemes. Connecting quantum network nodes to distribute entanglement requires matching photon…

We experimentally characterize a quantum photonic gate that is capable of converting multiqubit entangled states while acting only on two qubits. It is an important tool in large quantum networks, where it can be used for re-wiring of…

Quantum teleportation enables a way to transmit an arbitrary qubit state from one place to an other. A standard scheme for teleportation in optical setup involve three photons, an entangled photon pair and a photon carrying quantum state to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Akshai T. Krishnan , Kanad Sengupta , S. P. Dinesh , C. M. Chandrashekar

We entangle each individual matter-qubit in a register of ten to a separate travelling photon. The qubits are encoded in a string of cotrapped atomic ions. By switching the trap confinement, ions are brought one at a time into the waist of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 M. Canteri , Z. X. Koong , J. Bate , A. Winkler , V. Krutyanskiy , B. P. Lanyon

Quantum entanglement, one of the defining features of quantum mechanics, has been demonstrated in a variety of nonlinear spin-like systems. Quantum entanglement in linear systems has proven significantly more challenging, as the intrinsic…

Quantum optics plays a crucial role in developing quantum computers on different platforms. In photonics, precise control over light's degrees of freedom, including discrete variables (polarization, photon number, orbital angular momentum)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 J. S. Araujo , K. Khan , A. S. Coelho