Fast single-photon detectors and real-time key distillation enable high secret-key-rate quantum key distribution systems

F Grünenfelder, A Boaron, GV Resta, M Perrenoud… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution has emerged as the most viable scheme to guarantee information
security in the presence of large-scale quantum computers and, thanks to the continuous …

Hertz-rate metropolitan quantum teleportation

S Shen, C Yuan, Z Zhang, H Yu, R Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum teleportation can transfer an unknown quantum state between distant quantum
nodes, which holds great promise in enabling large-scale quantum networks. To advance …

Gigahertz detection rates and dynamic photon-number resolution with superconducting nanowire arrays

GV Resta, L Stasi, M Perrenoud, S El-Khoury… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have enabled the realization
of several quantum optics technologies thanks to their high system detection efficiency …

Resolving photon numbers using ultra-high-resolution timing of a single low-jitter superconducting nanowire detector

G Sauer, M Kolarczik, R Gomez, J Conrad… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors are a key enabling technology in photonic
quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate the PNR capacity of conventional …

Enhanced heralded single-photon source with a photon-number-resolving parallel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

L Stasi, P Caspar, T Brydges, H Zbinden… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Heralded single-photon sources (HSPS) intrinsically suffer from multiphoton emission,
leading to a trade-off between the source's quality and the heralding rate. A solution to this …

Photon-number-resolving and ultra-fast multipixel SNSPD arrays for quantum photonic platforms

GV Resta, L Stasi, M Perrenoud, R Thew… - Optical Fiber …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We report on a high-efficiency multipixel SNSPD array detecting at> 1. 5 GHz and that has
excellent photon-number resolving (PNR) capability at 1550 nm. This device enables …

[PDF][PDF] Atomic-Ensemble-based Quantum Repeaters

WA Stevense - repository.tudelft.nl
We perform a numerical optimisation of the hardware parameters of an atomic-ensemble-
based single repeater setup. The setup operates on a real-life fiber network connecting the …