I'm so so thrilled to see our first GothamQ paper formally published in my most favorite journal, PRX Quantum 🎉 (link at the end)
I've published many papers as a grad student, postdoc, and now a group lead but this work is so unique to me. To be fully honest, for the first time I feel like we have done something really impactful!
On the surface, this is a very simple work! We distributed entanglement in NYC. But in reality this paper is the result of 4 years of nonstop hard work of our physicists, engineers, and software developers. We had to invent and manufacture a new entanglement source that works at room temperature (hence actually useful for qu. networking) but has lots of advantages over all the other alternative options. We had to invent and manufacture the devices that very rapidly and with very low loss monitor the infrastructure for any imperfections. We had to write thousands of lines of codes so both devices work together automatically and without any need for manual optimization. And on top of all that we had to negotiate and build a quantum testbed in one of the world's most busy and chaotic cities.
We did all that to prove one thing: Entanglement distribution is ready for prime time, beyond academic and research testbeds. The technology has reached a pivotal point where everything is robust and high quality for practical use cases by a much wider community than just quantum physicists. This shift is not only essential for us to be able to use entanglement for applications we already know of, but also to make it widely available for much more creative people than us to constantly think of use cases for quantum networks and entanglement links.
I really hope if you are in this field, you enjoy reading this paper and as always don't hesitate to reach out to me for any questions.
Goes without saying, this work is all thanks to our amazing team at Qunnect, and a huge congrats to all the authors Alexander Craddock, Anne Lazenby, Gabriel Bello Portmann, Rourke Sekelsky, Maël Flament
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