Teleportation and Entanglement Swapping of Continuous Quantum Variables of Microwave Radiation

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates microwave quantum communication components, including entanglement generation, teleportation, and swapping, using Josephson mixers, advancing continuous-variable quantum information processing in the microwave domain.

Contribution

It introduces a Josephson mixer-based system for microwave CV entanglement, teleportation, and swapping, filling a gap in microwave quantum communication capabilities.

Findings

Achieved maximum logarithmic negativity E_N=1.5 for entanglement generation.

Teleportation fidelity of 73%, surpassing classical limit.

Generated entanglement between remote modes with E_N=0.53.

Abstract

Quantum communication is needed to build powerful quantum computers and establish reliable quantum networks. At its basis lies the ability to generate and distribute entanglement to separate quantum systems, which can be used to run remote quantum operations on them or teleport quantum states from one system to another with the help of classical channels. To this end, it is useful to harness the resource of continuous-variable (CV) entanglement since it can be efficiently and unconditionally produced by squeezing light in a nonlinear medium and can be easily manipulated, distributed, and measured using standard components. While various aspects of CV-based quantum communication have been successfully demonstrated in the optical domain, some key capabilities, such as entanglement swapping, have been lacking in the microwave domain. Here, we demonstrate three key elements of CV-based microwave quantum communication, (1) a Josephson mixer operating as nondegenerate two-mode entangler with maximum measured logarithmic negativity E_N=1.5, (2) a quantum teleportation apparatus, capable of teleporting vacuum and coherent states with a maximum fidelity of 73%, which exceeds the 50% classical limit and is mainly limited by intermediate losses in the setup, and (3) an entanglement swapping system which generates entanglement between two remote noninteracting modes via entanglement swapping operations applied to input vacuum and coherent states with maximum measured logarithmic negativity E_N=0.53. Such hardware-efficient CV entanglement building blocks that are based on nondegenerate Josephson mixers could enable wide-ranging applications in modular quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum communication.