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Future Challenges in Long-Distance Quantum Communication. Jian-Wei Pan. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, USTC and Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg December 15, 2005. Quantum Superposition. or. Classical Physics: “bit”. +. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Future Challenges in Long-Distance Quantum
Communication
Jian-Wei Pan
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, USTC and
Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg
December 15, 2005
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Classical Physics:
“bit”
Quantum Physics: “qubit”
Entanglement:
Quantum foundations: Bell’s inequality, quantum nonlocality…Quantum information processing: quantum communication, quantum computation, high precision measurement etc …
Quantum Superposition
When information is encoded in quantum states one may outperform classical communication systems in terms of
• absolute security• efficiency• channel capacity
Because quantum information systems allow encoding information by means of
coherent superposition of quantum states.
Why Quantum Communication?
Qubits: Polarization of Single Photons
One bit of information per photon(encoded in polarization)
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Non-cloning theorem:
An unknown quantum state can not be copied precisely!
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Bell states – maximally entangled states:
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Polarization Entangled Photon Pair 1-2
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Singlet:
where
45-degree polarization
Quantum Cryptographic Key Distribution
•Single-particle-based secret key distribution:
•Entanglement-based secret key distribution:[A. Ekert, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 661 (1991). ]
[C. H. Bennett & G. Brassard, BB84 protocol (1984) ]
Quantum Teleportation
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Initial state
The shared entangled pair
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[C.H. Bennett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 3801 (1993)]
Entanglement Swapping
[M. Zukowski et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 4287 (1993)]
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achieved distance: 100km fiber-based (Toshiba Research Europe) 23km free-space (TU Munich)
Key Distribution with Single Photons
[C. Kurtsiefer et al., Nature 419, 450 (2002)]
Generation of Photonic Entanglement
[P. G. Kwiat et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4337 (1995).]
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Key Distribution with Entangled Photons
achieved distance: 1km for both fibre-based and free-space
Fibre: [T. Jennewein et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4729 (2000).] [D. S. Naik, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4733 (2000).] [W. Tittel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4737 (2000).]Free-space: [M. Aspelmeyer et al., Science 301, 621 (2003).]
Experimental Quantum Teleportation
Teleportation: [D. Bouwmeester & J.-W. Pan et al., Nature 390, 575 (1997)]
The setup
Entanglement Swapping: [J.-W. Pan et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3891 (1998)]
The result
Our dream:
achieving long-distance quantum communication!
However, due to the noisy quantum channel
photon loss(1) absorption
(2) decoherence degrading entanglement quality
Difficulties in Long-Distance Quantum Communication
Free-Space Distribution of Entangled Photons
Free-Space Distribution of Entangled Photons over 13km
[C.-Z. Peng et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 150501 (2005)]
Free-space entanglement distribution - we are working on 20km and 500km scale…
Entanglement swapping: solution to photon loss: [N. Gisin et al., Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 145 (2002)]
Entanglement purification: solution to decoherence[C. H. Bennett et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 722 (1996)][D. Deutsch et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2818 (1996)]
Another Solution to Photon Loss and Decoherence
Generating Entangled States over Long-Distance
Quantum repeaters:
[H. Briegel et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5932(1998)]
Require
• entanglement swapping with high precision• entanglement purification with high precision• quantum memory
Experimental Entanglement Purification and Swapping
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Fraction
Before purification, F=3/4
After purification, F=13/14
[J.-W. Pan et al., Nature 423, 417 (2003)]
[J.-W. Pan et al., Nature 410, 1067 (2001)]
[J.-W. Pan et al., Nature 421, 721 (2003)]
Drawback in Former Experiments
• Probabilistic entangled photon source• Probabilistic entanglement purification• Bad weather
Quantum memory
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• In N -stage realization, the cost of resource is proportional to NPN/
• With the help of quantum memory, the total cost is then PN/
Storage of single-photon states in atomic ensembles
[C. Liu et al., Nature 409, 490 (2001)][D. F. Phillips et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 783 (2001)]
Storage of light in atomic ensembles
motivate
[L.-M. Duan et al., Nature 414, 413 (2001)]
Solution with Atomic Ensembles
Entanglement Generation
Maximally entangled in
the number basis!
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LRaaRL hh 00
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Entanglement Connection
Steps :
1. Apply a reverse read laser pulse to transfer
atomic excitation to optical exc.
2.Succeeds if D1 or D2 registers one photon
3.Fails otherwise, and repeat every step from entanglement generation
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The most recent experiment results
Observation of Stokes and anti-Stokes photon • Harvard: M. D. Lukin… [C. H. Van der Wal et al., Science 301, 196 (2003)]• Caltech: H. J. Kimble… [A. Kuzmich et al., Nature 423, 731 (2003)]• Gatech: A. Kuzmich… [D. N. Matsukevich et al., Science 306, 663 (2004)]• Heidelberg: J.-W. Pan … long-life time quantum memory [S. Chen et al., in preparation for Phys. Rev. Lett.] working on a phase insensitive scheme…Synchronization of two independent lasers• USTC: J.-W. Pan, J. Zhang and Z.-Y. Wei … [T. Yang et al., submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2005)]
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Powerful Quantum Superposition
Promising Long-Distance Quantum Communication