January 21, 2025
Quantum physics: record entanglement of quantum memories

Record entanglement of quantum memories

Researchers from LMU and Saarland University have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer-long fiber optic connection — a record and an important step toward the Quantum Internet. This is the longest distance so far […]

Illustration of the Hamiltonian showing one of the ground states assuming that h > J and the qubits at the ends satisfy the applied fields.

Error measurements for a quantum annealer

A finite length ferromagnetic chain with opposite spin polarization imposed at its two ends is one of the simplest frustrated spin models. In the clean classical limit the domain wall inserted on account of the […]

Atomic qubit control using lasers as the local oscillator (LO)

Limits on atomic qubit control from laser noise

Researchers studied the unique spectral structure of laser noise and introduced a metric that determines when a stabilised laser source has been optimised for quantum control of atomic qubits. Technical noise present in laser systems […]

Components of a quantum repeater network.

A quantum router architecture for high-fidelity entanglement

The past decade has seen tremendous progress in experimentally realizing the building blocks of quantum repeaters. Repeater architectures with multiplexed quantum memories have been proposed to increase entanglement distribution rates, but an open challenge is […]

Processing photons in picoseconds

To build novel quantum devices, researchers need to be able to control individual photons of light: Engineers propose doing so with a time lens. Like a magnifying glass zooming in on a spatial feature, this […]

A particle of light from the single photon source (below) is stored in the vapor cell (above). A simultaneously emitted second photon is revealed by a detector (right), which triggers the control laser pulse and thereby initiates the storage process. (Image: Department of Physics/University of Basel)

Quantum network nodes with warm atoms

Physicists at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have now developed a network node for quantum communication networks that can store single photons in a vapor cell and pass them on later. In quantum communication networks, […]