April 2021 research round-up

The quantum networking field is moving quickly! Here, we gather and organize pre-prints from the last month to help researchers stay up to date on the latest work.

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All pre-prints listed below are freely available on arXiv.

Architecture:

• Optimal performance of global quantum networks

Entanglement

• The controlled SWAP test for determining quantum entanglement
• Bell nonlocality in networks

Multi-partite entanglement:

• Local and scalable detection of genuine multipartite single-photon path entanglement
• Computable and operationally meaningful multipartite entanglement measures
• Genuine multipartite nonlocality with causal-diagram postselection

Entanglement swapping

• Spectrally-resolved four-photon interference of time-frequency entangled photons

Integrated photonics

• High-speed tunable microcavities coupled to rare-earth quantum emitter

Photon sources

• Towards on-demand heralded single-photon sources via photon blockade

Quantum repeaters

• Quantum dot technology for quantum repeaters: from entangled photon generation towards the integration with quantum memories

Quantum teleportation

• Quantum state transfer between two photons with polarization and orbital angular momentum via quantum teleportation technology
• Optomechanical quantum teleportation
• Quantum teleportation is a reversal of quantum measurement

Space-based quantum communication

• Realizing quantum nodes in space for cost-effective, global quantum communication: in-orbit results and next steps

Secure communication

• Secure quantum secret sharing without signal disturbance monitoring
• Sharing classical secrets with continuous-variable entanglement: Composable security and network coding advantage

Transduction & Frequency conversion

• Photon pumping in a weakly-driven quantum cavity-spin system
• Ion-photonic frequency qubit correlations for quantum networks

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