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Solid-state quantum emitters are excellent sources of on-demand indistinguishable or entangled photons and can host long-lived spin memories, crucial resources for photonic quantum information applications. However, their scalability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Zhe-Xian Koong , Guillem Ballesteros-Garcia , Raphaël Proux , Dan Dalacu , Philip J. Poole , Brian D. Gerardot

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as a premier solid-state platform for the deterministic generation of nonclassical light, offering a compelling pathway toward scalable quantum photonic systems. While single-photon emission…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Xingling Pan , Zhiming Chen , Yingtao Ding , Weibo Gao , Fei Ding , Zhaogang Dong

We report on a source of ultranarrow-band photon pairs generated by widely nondegenerate cavity-enhanced spontaneous down-conversion. The source is designed to be compatible with Pr3+ solid state quantum memories and telecommunication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Julia Fekete , Daniel Rielander , Matteo Cristiani , Hugues de Riedmatten

The exploitation of multimodality in different degrees of freedom is one of the most promising ways to increase the rate of heralded entanglement between distant quantum nodes. In this paper, we realize a spatially-multiplexed solid-state…

A full-fledged quantum network relies on the formation of entangled links between remote location with the help of quantum repeaters. The famous Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller quantum repeater protocol is based on long distance single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Chen-Long Li. Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

We present a detailed analysis of a high-bandwidth quantum memory protocol for storing single photons in a rare-earth-ion doped crystal. The basic idea is to benefit from a coherent free-induced decay type re-emission which occurs naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Valentina Caprara Vivoli , Nicolas Sangouard , Mikael Afzelius , Nicolas Gisin

Strongly correlated multi-photon states are indispensable resources for advanced quantum technologies, yet their deterministic generation remains challenging due to the inherent weak nonlinearity in most optical systems. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Jia-Qi Li , Anton Frisk Kockum , Xin Wang

The ability to transmit quantum states over long distances is a fundamental requirement of the quantum internet and is reliant upon quantum repeaters. Quantum repeaters involve entangled photon sources that emit and deliver photonic…

A hybrid interface of solid state single-photon sources and atomic quantum memories is a long sought-after goal in photonic quantum technologies. Here we demonstrate deterministic storage and retrieval of photons from a semiconductor…

The promise of universal quantum computing requires scalable single- and inter-qubit control interactions. Currently, three of the leading candidate platforms for quantum computing are based on superconducting circuits, trapped ions, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Eun Oh , Xuanying Lai , Jianming Wen , Shengwang Du

Entanglement between photons at telecommunication wavelengths and long-lived quantum memories is one of the fundamental requirements of long-distance quantum communication. Quantum memories featuring on-demand read-out and multimode…

Quantum communication between remote superconducting systems is being studied intensively to increase the number of integrated superconducting qubits and to realize a distributed quantum computer. Since optical photons must be used for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Hodaka Kurokawa , Moyuki Yamamoto , Yuhei Sekiguchi , Hideo Kosaka

Quantum memory capable of storage and retrieval of flying photons on demand is crucial for developing quantum information technologies. However, the devices needed for long-distance links are quite different from those envisioned for local…

Here we propose a solid-state quantum memory that does not require spectral holeburning, instead using strong rephasing pulses like traditional photon echo techniques. The memory uses external broadening fields to reduce the optical depth…

Quantum information science attempts to exploit capabilities from the quantum realm to accomplish tasks that are otherwise impossible in the classical domain [1]. Although sufficient conditions have been formulated for the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Kuzmich , W. P. Bowen , A. D. Boozer , A. Boca , C. W. Chou , L. -M. Duan , H. J. Kimble

Building a quantum repeater network for long distance quantum communication requires photons and quantum registers that comprise qubits for interaction with light, good memory capabilities and processing qubits for storage and manipulation…

The ability to generate complex optical photon states involving entanglement between multiple optical modes is not only critical to advancing our understanding of quantum mechanics but will play a key role in generating many applications in…

Interfaced single-photon sources and quantum memories for photons together form a foundational component of quantum technology. Achieving compatibility between heterogeneous, state-of-the-art devices is a long-standing challenge. We built…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-04 Gianni Buser , Roberto Mottola , Björn Cotting , Janik Wolters , Philipp Treutlein

Quantum repeaters based on heralded entanglement require quantum nodes that are able to generate multimode quantum correlations between memories and telecommunication photons. The communication rate scales linearly with the number of modes,…

Coherent and reversible mapping of quantum information between light and matter is an important experimental challenge in quantum information science. In particular, it is a decisive milestone for the implementation of quantum networks and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-15 Hugues de Riedmatten , Mikael Afzelius , Matthias Staudt , Christoph Simon , Nicolas Gisin