Erwin Schrödinger Center for Quantum Science & Technology (ESQ)

The rules of the quantum world promise new possibilities for secure communication, for example, by sharing entangled photon pairs. The problem with this approach is that such systems are not as stable as researchers would like them to be. "Information can be lost over long distances because there is always background noise, for example from photons from the sun," explains Marcus Huber from the Vienna Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

This places practical limits on both the bandwidth and the security of such communication channels. Together with colleagues from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, as well as from Bratislava and Brno, the researchers have now developed an approach that overcomes these limits by entangling photons in several dimensions.

For more information see https://www.iqoqi-vienna.at/detail/news/information-transfer-in-quantum-communication-improved-1. 

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"High-Dimensional Pixel Entanglement: Efficient Generationand Certification", Natalia Herrera Valencia, Vatshal Srivastav, Matej Pivoluska, Marcus Huber, Nicolai Friis, Will McCutcheon, and Mehul Malik, Quantum, 2020, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2020-12-24-376