Distributing entanglement and single photons through an intra-city, free-space quantum channel

K. J. Resch, M. Lindenthal, Bibiane Blauensteiner, Hannes Böhm, A. Fedrizzi, M. Taraba, R. Ursin, P. Walther, A. Poppe, T. Schmitt-Manderbach, H. Weier, H. Weinfurter, A. Zeilinger

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    Abstract

    Entangled photons are distributed directly through the atmosphere to a receiver station 7.8 km away at night over the city center of Vienna, Austria. Without a time-stable connection, the two stations found coincidence counts in the detection events through the cross-correlation of locally-recorded time stamps shared over a public Internet channel. As such, the sending and receiver stations were completely independent. The polarization correlations contained in the measured time tags are sufficient to convincingly violate a CHSH-Bell inequality and demonstrate entanglement between the two city buildings.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC '05
    Pages298
    Number of pages1
    Volume2005
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    Event2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC '05 - Munich, Germany
    Duration: 12 Jun 200517 Jun 2005

    Conference

    Conference2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC '05
    Country/TerritoryGermany
    CityMunich
    Period12/06/0517/06/05

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 103026 Quantum optics

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