Photonic-chip-based dense entanglement distribution

Shang-Yu Ren; Wei-Qiang Wang; Yu-Jie Cheng; Long Huang; Bing-Zheng Du; Wei Zhao; Guang-Can Guo; Lan-Tian Feng; Wen-Fu Zhang; Xi-Feng Ren

doi:10.1186/s43074-023-00089-1

PhotoniX, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 12(2023)

Photonic-chip-based dense entanglement distribution

Shang-Yu Ren^1,2、†, Wei-Qiang Wang^3,4、†, Yu-Jie Cheng^1,2, Long Huang^3,4, Bing-Zheng Du³, Wei Zhao^3,4, Guang-Can Guo^1,2,5, Lan-Tian Feng^1,2、*, Wen-Fu Zhang^3,4、**, and Xi-Feng Ren^1,2,5、***

Author Affiliations

¹CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

²CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

³State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

⁴University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

⁵Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Nov. 1, 2022

Accepted: Feb. 28, 2023

Published Online: Jul. 10, 2023

The Author Email: Lan-Tian Feng (fenglt@ustc.edu.cn), Wen-Fu Zhang (wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn), Xi-Feng Ren (renxf@ustc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1186/s43074-023-00089-1

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