High-dimensional quantum communication with scalable photonic entanglement in time and frequency

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Autores principales: Chang, Kai-Chi, Sarihan, Murat Can, Li, Nicky Kai Hong, Kanitschar, Florian, Akyuz, Kemal Enes, Chen, Yujie, Lee, Dong-Il, Kang, Jin Ho, Aldhafeeri, Alwaleed, Mueller, Andrew, Shaw, Matthew D., Korzh, Boris, Spiropulu, Maria, Erker, Paul, Huber, Marcus, Wong, Chee Wei
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author Chang, Kai-Chi
Sarihan, Murat Can
Li, Nicky Kai Hong
Kanitschar, Florian
Akyuz, Kemal Enes
Chen, Yujie
Lee, Dong-Il
Kang, Jin Ho
Aldhafeeri, Alwaleed
Mueller, Andrew
Shaw, Matthew D.
Korzh, Boris
Spiropulu, Maria
Erker, Paul
Huber, Marcus
Wong, Chee Wei
author_facet Chang, Kai-Chi
Sarihan, Murat Can
Li, Nicky Kai Hong
Kanitschar, Florian
Akyuz, Kemal Enes
Chen, Yujie
Lee, Dong-Il
Kang, Jin Ho
Aldhafeeri, Alwaleed
Mueller, Andrew
Shaw, Matthew D.
Korzh, Boris
Spiropulu, Maria
Erker, Paul
Huber, Marcus
Wong, Chee Wei
contents High-dimensional photonic entanglement holds significant promise for advancing quantum communication, computation, and metrology. For example, large-alphabet quantum communication protocols are known to benefit from enhanced noise resilience and information capacity via multi-bit time-bin encoding. Yet, characterizing high-dimensional entangled states is challenging, as full state tomography becomes prohibitively costly and often requires unrealizable measurements. Here, we demonstrate a scan-free method to characterize high-dimensional entanglement in the time-frequency domain. Our reconstruction achieves a record $5.70\pm0.07$ ebits and a fidelity of $65.4\pm0.4\%$ with the maximally entangled state of local dimension $1021$, certifying the presence of $668$-dimensional entanglement. We further prove the attainability of a secure key rate of $15.6$ kB/s in a composable finite-size, entanglement-based protocol, and show that in continuous operation, the setup can quickly approach asymptotic key rates. Using commercial telecom components and state-of-the-art low-jitter single-photon detectors, our scalable architecture offers a practical path towards high-rate, noise-resilient quantum communication testbeds.
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spellingShingle High-dimensional quantum communication with scalable photonic entanglement in time and frequency
Chang, Kai-Chi
Sarihan, Murat Can
Li, Nicky Kai Hong
Kanitschar, Florian
Akyuz, Kemal Enes
Chen, Yujie
Lee, Dong-Il
Kang, Jin Ho
Aldhafeeri, Alwaleed
Mueller, Andrew
Shaw, Matthew D.
Korzh, Boris
Spiropulu, Maria
Erker, Paul
Huber, Marcus
Wong, Chee Wei
Quantum Physics
Optics
High-dimensional photonic entanglement holds significant promise for advancing quantum communication, computation, and metrology. For example, large-alphabet quantum communication protocols are known to benefit from enhanced noise resilience and information capacity via multi-bit time-bin encoding. Yet, characterizing high-dimensional entangled states is challenging, as full state tomography becomes prohibitively costly and often requires unrealizable measurements. Here, we demonstrate a scan-free method to characterize high-dimensional entanglement in the time-frequency domain. Our reconstruction achieves a record $5.70\pm0.07$ ebits and a fidelity of $65.4\pm0.4\%$ with the maximally entangled state of local dimension $1021$, certifying the presence of $668$-dimensional entanglement. We further prove the attainability of a secure key rate of $15.6$ kB/s in a composable finite-size, entanglement-based protocol, and show that in continuous operation, the setup can quickly approach asymptotic key rates. Using commercial telecom components and state-of-the-art low-jitter single-photon detectors, our scalable architecture offers a practical path towards high-rate, noise-resilient quantum communication testbeds.
title High-dimensional quantum communication with scalable photonic entanglement in time and frequency
topic Quantum Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18212