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Integrated quantum photonics

On-chip teleportation

Quantum teleportation is achieved on a photonic chip, paving the way for scalable quantum information processing based on linear optical networks.

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Figure 1: The integrated photonic circuitry for realizing quantum teleportation on a centimetre-scale chip.

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Ma, XS. On-chip teleportation. Nature Photon 8, 749–751 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.223

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