Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet

K Azuma, SE Economou, D Elkouss, P Hilaire… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
A quantum internet is the holy grail of quantum information processing, enabling the
deployment of a broad range of quantum technologies and protocols on a global scale …

Security in quantum cryptography

C Portmann, R Renner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Quantum cryptography exploits principles of quantum physics for the secure processing of
information. A prominent example is secure communication, ie, the task of transmitting …

Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Twisted photons: new quantum perspectives in high dimensions

M Erhard, R Fickler, M Krenn, A Zeilinger - Light: Science & Applications, 2018 - nature.com
Twisted photons can be used as alphabets to encode information beyond one bit per single
photon. This ability offers great potential for quantum information tasks, as well as for the …

Significant-loophole-free test of Bell's theorem with entangled photons

M Giustina, MAM Versteegh, S Wengerowsky… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
Local realism is the worldview in which physical properties of objects exist independently of
measurement and where physical influences cannot travel faster than the speed of light …

Strong loophole-free test of local realism

LK Shalm, E Meyer-Scott, BG Christensen, P Bierhorst… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We present a loophole-free violation of local realism using entangled photon pairs. We
ensure that all relevant events in our Bell test are spacelike separated by placing the parties …

Toward a photonic demonstration of device-independent quantum key distribution

WZ Liu, YZ Zhang, YZ Zhen, MH Li, Y Liu, J Fan, F Xu… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The security of quantum key distribution (QKD) usually relies on that the users' devices are
well characterized according to the security models made in the security proofs. In contrast …

Quantum random number generators

M Herrero-Collantes, JC Garcia-Escartin - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Random numbers are a fundamental resource in science and engineering with important
applications in simulation and cryptography. The inherent randomness at the core of …

Squeezed states of light and their applications in laser interferometers

R Schnabel - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
According to quantum theory the energy exchange between physical systems is quantized.
As a direct consequence, measurement sensitivities are fundamentally limited by …

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres

B Hensen, H Bernien, AE Dréau, A Reiserer, N Kalb… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
More than 50 years ago, John Bell proved that no theory of nature that obeys locality and
realism can reproduce all the predictions of quantum theory: in any local-realist theory, the …