Demonstration of Single Cesium Atom-Photon Entanglement for Dual Species Quantum Networking

Oral

Abstract

Quantum networks for modular quantum computing benefit from atom-photon interfaces with photons that can be transmitted with low loss in telecom fiber.  

Motivated by dual-species neutral-atom architectures that suppress optical crosstalk by separating communication and processor species while enabling interspecies Rydberg coupling [1], we are demonstrating a single-atom Cs atom-photon entanglement for Rb–Cs dual species networking. Single-atom atom–photon entanglement has been demonstrated with 87Rb, but not yet with single Cs atoms. We generate polarization-encoded photons correlated with a Cs Zeeman qubit states and measure Z- and X-basis parity fringes, from which we extract an atom–photon entanglement fidelity. These results establish key milestones toward future dual-species telecom-network integration.

[1] C. B. Young et al., “An architecture for quantum networking of neutral atom processors,” Appl. Phys. B 128, 151 (2022).

Presenters

  • Hansub Hwang

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

Authors

  • Hansub Hwang

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Faisal Herzallah

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Jihwan Moon

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Akbar Safari

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • Mark Saffman

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison