A Quantum Network Node with Crossed Optical Fibre Cavities
arXiv:2004.08832 · doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0855-3
Abstract
Quantum networks provide unique possibilities for resolving open questions on entanglement and promise innovative applications ranging from secure communication to scalable computation. While two quantum nodes coupled by a single channel are adequate for basic quantum communication tasks between two parties, fully functional large-scale quantum networks require a web-like architecture with multiply connected nodes. Efficient interfaces between network nodes and channels can be implemented with optical cavities. Using two optical fibre cavities coupled to one atom, we here realise a quantum network node that connects to two quantum channels. It functions as a passive, heralded and high-fidelity quantum memory that requires neither amplitude- and phase-critical control fields nor error-prone feedback loops. Our node is robust, fits naturally into larger fibre-based networks, can be scaled to more cavities, and thus provides clear perspectives for a quantum internet including qubit controlled quantum switches, routers, and repeaters.
12 pages, 8 figures (including Supplementary Information)
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