The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies

E Pelucchi, G Fagas, I Aharonovich, D Englund… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Integrated quantum photonics uses classical integrated photonic technologies and devices
for quantum applications. As in classical photonics, chip-scale integration has become …

Advances in quantum cryptography

S Pirandola, UL Andersen, L Banchi… - Advances in optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

An integrated space-to-ground quantum communication network over 4,600 kilometres

YA Chen, Q Zhang, TY Chen, WQ Cai, SK Liao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Quantum key distribution (QKD), has the potential to enable secure communication and
information transfer. In the laboratory, the feasibility of point-to-point QKD is evident from the …

Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet

K Azuma, SE Economou, D Elkouss, P Hilaire… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
A quantum internet is the holy grail of quantum information processing, enabling the
deployment of a broad range of quantum technologies and protocols on a global scale …

Quantum internet: A vision for the road ahead

S Wehner, D Elkouss, R Hanson - Science, 2018 - science.org
BACKGROUND The internet has had a revolutionary impact on our world. The vision of a
quantum internet is to provide fundamentally new internet technology by enabling quantum …

Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices

F Xu, X Ma, Q Zhang, HK Lo, JW Pan - Reviews of modern physics, 2020 - APS
In principle, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers information-theoretic security based on
the laws of physics. In practice, however, the imperfections of realistic devices might …

The evolution of quantum key distribution networks: On the road to the qinternet

Y Cao, Y Zhao, Q Wang, J Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum key distribution (QKD) constitutes a symmetric secret key negotiation protocol
capable of maintaining information-theoretic security. Given the recent advances in QKD …

Recent progress in quantum photonic chips for quantum communication and internet

W Luo, L Cao, Y Shi, L Wan, H Zhang, S Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent years have witnessed significant progress in quantum communication and quantum
internet with the emerging quantum photonic chips, whose characteristics of scalability …

Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres

J Yin, YH Li, SK Liao, M Yang, Y Cao, L Zhang, JG Ren… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Quantum key distribution (QKD),–is a theoretically secure way of sharing secret
keys between remote users. It has been demonstrated in a laboratory over a coiled optical …

Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing

C Couteau, S Barz, T Durt, T Gerrits, J Huwer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In the context of quantum technologies, the generation and manipulation of single photons
has become a key element for applications such as quantum communication and quantum …