Quantum teleportation over a field-deployed hollow-core fibre network

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25352v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:57:24 GMT
• Title: Quantum teleportation over a field-deployed hollow-core fibre network
• Abstract summary: hollow core fibre (HCF) offers a promising quantum channel resource.<n>HCF links preserve the long-term indistinguishability of photonic qubits without active stabilization.<n>This noise suppression enables robust quantum teleportation even alongside classical launch powers up to 160 mW.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: When a photon and one member of an entangled photon pair are jointly projected onto a Bell-state measurement (BSM), the quantum state of the photon can be transferred to the distant partner of the pair without physically transmitting this information carrier. In real-world deployment, however, teleportation performance is fundamentally bottlenecked by quantum channel impairments, such as loss, noise, and fluctuations, which induce severe decoherence and degrade fidelity. This vulnerability is further exacerbated in scenarios with intense classical data traffic or background light. Realizing scalable quantum networks, therefore, hinges on developing advanced channel architectures capable of supporting both high-fidelity quantum operations and high-capacity classical communications within a shared infrastructure. Towards this end, hollow core fibre (HCF) offers a promising quantum channel resource by combining free-space-like weak light-matter interaction with the stability of fibre-based systems. Here, utilizing a field-deployed metropolitan HCF network spanning three spatially separated nodes in Chengdu, we achieve quantum teleportation with an intermediate BSM under co-propagating classical traffic. Crucially, the HCF links preserve the long-term indistinguishability of photonic qubits without active stabilization, and exhibit a Raman noise approximately three orders of magnitude lower than that of standard solid-core counterparts. This noise suppression enables robust quantum teleportation even alongside classical launch powers up to 160 mW. Our findings establish a classical-data-compatible framework for quantum networking over deployed fibre infrastructure and offer a wavelength-agnostic, plug-and-play, and free-running pathway toward the quantum internet.

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