从地面到卫星的量子传输
Ji-Gang Ren1,2, Ping Xu1,2, Hai-Lin Yong1,2
1Department of Modern Physics and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Nature
|August 22, 2017
概括
从地面到卫星实现了1400公里的量子传输, 这是全球量子互联网的关键一步. 这一突破克服了以前的距离限制,
科学领域:
- 量子信息科学
- 量子通信
- 卫星技术
背景情况:
- 量子传输使量子状态的安全传输成为可能,
- 由于光纤和地面自由空间通道中的光子损失, 之前的实验仅限于100公里.
- 扩大量子传输范围对于全球量子互联网至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 通过卫星连接在前所未有的距离上演示量子传输.
- 克服地面量子通信通道的局限性.
- 建立一个全球量子互联网的基础.
主要方法:
- 使用一个紧的,超明亮的纠光子源来实现高效的上链传输.
- 采用窄光差和高精度指向,采集和跟踪系统.
- 从地面观测站到低地球轨道卫星进行量子传输,
主要成果:
- 成功实现了独立单光子量子比特的量子传输, 距离高达1400公里.
- 传输量子状态的高保真度 (0.80±0.01) 超过了经典的极限.
- 克服大气流的挑战, 实现可靠的地面-卫星量子通信.
结论:
- 这次演示是超远距离量子传输的重大进展.
- 地与卫星的上升连接是未来全球量子互联网的关键技术.
- 在全球范围内为分布式量子计算和安全量子通信网络铺平道路.
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