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Enhanced Detection Rate and High Photon-Number Efficiencies with a Scalable Parallel SNSPD
Lorenzo Stasi, Towsif Taher, Giovanni V. Resta +3
Since their inception, superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors have been enabling quantum optical applications and the rise of the photonic quantum industry. The evolution…
MoSi Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors on GaAs for On-Chip Integration
M. Erbe, R. Berrazouane, S. Geyer +8
We report on MoSi-based superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on a gallium arsenide substrate. MoSi deposited on a passivated GaAs surface has the same critical temperat…
GHz detection rates and dynamic photon-number resolution with superconducting nanowire arrays
Giovanni V. Resta, Lorenzo Stasi, Matthieu Perrenoud +5
Superconducting-nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) have enabled the realization of several quantum optics technologies thanks to their high detection efficiency, low dark-co…
Fast Single Photon Detectors and real-time Key Distillation: Enabling High Secret Key Rate QKD Systems
Fadri Grünenfelder, Alberto Boaron, Matthieu Perrenoud +11
Quantum Key Distribution has made continuous progress over the last 20 years and is now commercially available. However, the secret key rates (SKR) are still limited to a few Mbps.…
Enhanced heralded single-photon source with a photon-number-resolving parallel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
Lorenzo Stasi, Patrik Caspar, Tiff Brydges +3
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…
High-efficiency and fast photon-number resolving parallel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
Lorenzo Stasi, Gaëtan Gras, Riad Berrazouane +3
Photon-number resolving (PNR) single-photon detectors are an enabling technology in many areas such as photonic quantum computing, non-classical light source characterisation and q…
Operation of parallel SNSPDs at high detection rates
Matthieu Perrenoud, Misael Caloz, Emna Amri +4
Recent progress in the development of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD) has delivered ex-cellent performance, and their increased adoption has had a great im…
Quantum entropy model of an integrated QRNG chip
Gaëtan Gras, Anthony Martin, Jeong Woon Choi +1
We present the physical model for the entropy source of a quantum random number generator chip based on the quantum fluctuations of the photon number emitted by light-emitting diod…
Countermeasure against quantum hacking using detection statistics
Gaëtan Gras, Davide Rusca, Hugo Zbinden +1
Detector blinding attacks have been proposed in the last few years, and they could potentially threaten the security of QKD systems. Even though no complete QKD system has been hac…
Direct measurement of the recovery time of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Claire Autebert, Gaëtan Gras, Emna Amri +4
One of the key properties of single-photon detectors is their recovery time, i.e. the time required for the detector to recover its nominal efficiency. In the case of superconducti…
Optical control of single-photon negative-feedback avalanche diode detector
Gaëtan Gras, Nigar Sultana, Anqi Huang +4
We experimentally demonstrate optical control of negative-feedback avalanche diode (NFAD) detectors using bright light. We deterministically generate fake single-photon detections…
Intrinsically-limited timing jitter in molybdenum silicide superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Misael Caloz, Boris Korzh, Edward Ramirez +5
Recent progress in the development of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) has delivered excellent performances, and has had a great impact on a range of resea…
Secure quantum key distribution over 421 km of optical fiber
Alberto Boaron, Gianluca Boso, Davide Rusca +10
We present a quantum key distribution system with a 2.5 GHz repetition rate using a three-state time-bin protocol combined with a one-decoy approach. Taking advantage of supercondu…
High-detection efficiency and low-timing jitter with amorphous superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Misael Caloz, Matthieu Perrenoud, Claire Autebert +6
Recent progress in the development of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) made of amorphous material has delivered excellent performances, and has had a great…
Experimental certification of millions of genuinely entangled atoms in a solid
Florian Fröwis, Peter C. Strassmann, Alexey Tiranov +6
Quantum theory predicts that entanglement can also persist in macroscopic physical systems, albeit difficulties to demonstrate it experimentally remain. Recently, significant progr…
Optically probing the detection mechanism in a molybdenum silicide superconducting nanowire single-photon detector
Misael Caloz, Boris Korzh, Nuala Timoney +7
We experimentally investigate the detection mechanism in a meandered molybdenum silicide (MoSi) superconducting nanowire single-photon detector by characterising the detection prob…
Temporal multimode storage of entangled photon pairs
Alexey Tiranov, Peter C. Strassmann, Jonathan Lavoie +10
Multiplexed quantum memories capable of storing and processing entangled photons are essential for the development of quantum networks. In this context, we demonstrate the simultan…
24-Hour Relativistic Bit Commitment
Ephanielle Verbanis, Anthony Martin, Raphaël Houlmann +3
Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which a party wishes to commit a secret bit to another party. Perfect security between mistrustful parties is unfortunate…
Demonstration of EPR steering using single-photon path entanglement and displacement-based detection
T. Guerreiro, F. Monteiro, A. Martin +15
We demonstrate the violation of an EPR steering inequality developed for single photon path entanglement with displacement-based detection. We use a high-rate source of heralded si…
Light-matter micro-macro entanglement
Alexey Tiranov, Jonathan Lavoie, Peter C. Strassmann +4
Quantum mechanics predicts microscopic phenomena with undeniable success. Nevertheless, current theoretical and experimental efforts still do not yield conclusive evidence that the…
Heralded amplification of photonic qubits
Natalia Bruno, Vittorio Pini, Anthony Martin +11
We demonstrate heralded qubit amplification for Time-Bin and Fock-state qubits in an all-fibre, telecom-wavelength, scheme that highlights the simplicity, the stability and potenti…
High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films
V. B. Verma, B. Korzh, F. Bussières +9
We demonstrate high-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) fabricated from MoSi thin-films. We measure a maximum system detection efficiency (SDE) of…
Storage of hyperentanglement in a solid-state quantum memory
Alexey Tiranov, Jonathan Lavoie, Alban Ferrier +11
Two photons can simultaneously share entanglement between several degrees of freedom such as polarization, energy-time, spatial mode and orbital angular momentum. This resource is…
Practical relativistic bit commitment
Tommaso Lunghi, Jędrzej Kaniewski, Felix Bussieres +4
Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic primitive in which Alice wishes to commit a secret bit to Bob. Perfectly secure bit commitment between two mistrustful parties is impo…