Entangling quantum memories over 420 km in fiber

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05660v1
• Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:19:24 GMT
• Title: Entangling quantum memories over 420 km in fiber
• Authors: Xi-Yu Luo, Chao-Yang Wang, Ming-Yang Zheng, Bin Wang, Jian-Long Liu, Bo-Feng Gao, Jun Li, Zi Yan, Qiao-Mu Ke, Da Teng, Rui-Chun Wang, Jun Wu, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Li-Xing You, Xiu-Ping Xie, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, Xiao-Hui Bao, Jian-Wei Pan,
• Abstract summary: Long-distance entanglement is pivotal for quantum communication, distributed quantum computing and sensing.<n>We make a significant step further by reporting the entanglement between two atomic ensemble quantum memories over 420 km.<n>We employ the DLCZ scheme for remote entanglement generation, and delicately stabilize the relative phase between the two memories.
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• Abstract: Long-distance entanglement is pivotal for quantum communication, distributed quantum computing and sensing. Significant progresses have been made in extending the distribution distance of entangled photons, either in free space or fiber. For future quantum network applications, matter-based entanglement is more favorable since the capability of storage is essential for advanced applications. Extending entanglement distance for memory qubits was partially hindered by the mismatch of its photonic emission wavelength with the low-loss transmission window of optical fiber. By incorporating quantum frequency conversion, memory-memory entanglement has been successfully extended to several tens of kilometers. Here, we make a significant step further by reporting the entanglement between two atomic ensemble quantum memories over 420 km. We convert photons emitted from the memories to telecom S-band, which enable us to exploit the significantly low transmission loss in fiber (0.17 dB/km). We employ the DLCZ scheme for remote entanglement generation, and delicately stabilize the relative phase between the two memories by using fulltime far-off-resonant locking to reduce high-frequency noise and intermittent dual-band locking to compensate low-frequency drift jointly. We demonstrate that the memory-memory entangling probability beats the repeaterless channel capacity for direct entanglement distribution. Our experiment provides a testbed of studying quantum network applications from metropolitan scale to intercity scale.

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