Experimental demonstration of entanglement delivery using a quantum network stack
Abstract
Scaling current quantum communication demonstrations to a large-scale quantum network will require not only advancements in quantum hardware capabilities, but also robust control of such devices to bridge the gap to user demand. Moreover, the abstraction of tasks and services offered by the quantum network should enable platform-independent applications to be executed without knowledge of the underlying physical implementation. Here we experimentally demonstrate, using remote solid-state quantum network nodes, a link layer and a physical layer protocol for entanglement-based quantum networks. The link layer abstracts the physical-layer entanglement attempts into a robust, platform-independent entanglement delivery service. The system is used to run full state tomography of the delivered entangled states, as well as preparation of a remote qubit state on a server by its client. Our results mark a clear transition from physics experiments to quantum communication systems, which will enable the development and testing of components of future quantum networks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2111.11332,
title = {Experimental demonstration of entanglement delivery using a quantum network stack},
author = {Matteo Pompili and Carlo Delle Donne and Ingmar te Raa and Bart van der Vecht and Matthew Skrzypczyk and Guilherme Ferreira and Lisa de Kluijver and Arian J. Stolk and Sophie L. N. Hermans and Przemysław Pawełczak and Wojciech Kozlowski and Ronald Hanson and Stephanie Wehner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.11332},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
12 pages, 5 figures, supplementary materials