Progress in satellite quantum key distribution

R Bedington, JM Arrazola, A Ling - npj Quantum Information, 2017 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a family of protocols for growing a private encryption key
between two parties. Despite much progress, all ground-based QKD approaches have a …

Satellite-based continuous-variable quantum communications: State-of-the-art and a predictive outlook

N Hosseinidehaj, Z Babar, R Malaney… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recent launch of the Micius quantum-enabled satellite heralds a major step forward for
long-range quantum communication. Using single-photon discrete-variable quantum states …

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

HK Lo, M Curty, B Qi - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
How to remove detector side channel attacks has been a notoriously hard problem in
quantum cryptography. Here, we propose a simple solution to this problem—measurement …

Overcoming noise in entanglement distribution

S Ecker, F Bouchard, L Bulla, F Brandt, O Kohout… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
Noise can be considered the natural enemy of quantum information. An often implied benefit
of high-dimensional entanglement is its increased resilience to noise. However, manifesting …

Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward

XS Ma, T Herbst, T Scheidl, D Wang, S Kropatschek… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The quantum internet is predicted to be the next-generation information processing platform,
promising secure communication, and an exponential speed-up in distributed computation …

Air-to-ground quantum communication

S Nauerth, F Moll, M Rau, C Fuchs, J Horwath… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution,(QKD) is the first commercial application in the new field of
quantum information, with first routine applications in government and financial sectors and …

Cosmic Bell test using random measurement settings from high-redshift quasars

D Rauch, J Handsteiner, A Hochrainer, J Gallicchio… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
In this Letter, we present a cosmic Bell experiment with polarization-entangled photons, in
which measurement settings were determined based on real-time measurements of the …

A comprehensive design and performance analysis of low Earth orbit satellite quantum communication

JP Bourgoin, E Meyer-Scott, BL Higgins… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical quantum communication utilizing satellite platforms has the potential to extend the
reach of quantum key distribution (QKD) from terrestrial limits of∼ 200 km to global scales …

Entanglement distribution over 300 km of fiber

T Inagaki, N Matsuda, O Tadanaga, M Asobe… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report the distribution of time-bin entangled photon pairs over 300 km of optical fiber. We
realized this by using a high-speed and high signal-to-noise ratio entanglement …

Cosmic Bell test: measurement settings from milky way stars

J Handsteiner, AS Friedman, D Rauch, J Gallicchio… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Bell's theorem states that some predictions of quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced by
a local-realist theory. That conflict is expressed by Bell's inequality, which is usually derived …