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Quantum Teleportation from Telecom Photons to Erbium-ion Ensembles

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Pith's one-line read A telecom photonic qubit is teleported into an erbium-ion ensemble memory, with state and process fidelities above classical thresholds.

desk verdict First teleportation into an erbium ensemble memory, but the quantum certification currently rests on an all-optical decoy analysis rather than the memory data. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.05233 v3 pith:OPWD5LG5 submitted 2025-05-08 quant-ph

Yu-Yang An , Qian He , Wenyi Xue , Ming-Hao Jiang , Chengdong Yang , Yan-Qing Lu , Shining Zhu , Xiao-Song Ma This is my paper · ORCID
classification quant-ph MSC 81P4581P68 PACS 03.67.Hk42.50.Ex
keywords quantumteleportationerbium-ionensemblememoryatomicfrequencycombtelecomC-bandtime-binqubitsiliconnitridemicroringdecoy-statemethod
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The reading

The paper reports the teleportation of a time-bin quantum state carried by a telecom-wavelength photon into an ensemble of 167Er3+ ions doped into a Y2SiO5 crystal, where it is stored for about 2.2 microseconds and then read out. The entangled photon pair needed for teleportation is generated on a silicon-nitride microring chip, and the Bell-state measurement is done by two-photon interference on a fiber beam splitter. The measured average state fidelity is 0.818 ± 0.019 and the process fidelity is 0.736 ± 0.022, both reported to exceed the relevant classical limits; after applying the decoy-state method to the weak-coherent input, the single-photon fidelity lower bound is quoted as 81.82 ± 1.25%, more than 12 standard deviations above 2/3. If correct, this extends light-to-matter teleportation to a memory material with a native telecom C-band transition, which matters because it removes the need for wavelength conversion in fiber-based quantum networks.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing objects are time-bin qubits, a silicon-nitride dual-interferometer microring resonator source that emits narrowband (about 185 MHz) time-bin entangled photon pairs at telecom wavelengths, a fiber beam-splitter Bell-state analyzer that projects onto |Ψ−⟩, and an atomic-frequency-comb (AFC) memory in 167Er3+:Y2SiO5. The AFC, a spectral comb of absorption peaks, stores the signal photon for 2187 ns and re-emits it as an echo, mapping Alice's input state onto the retrieved photon. Certification is carried out by quantum state tomography, which reconstructs the density matrix, and quantum process tomography, which reconstructs the process matrix against the ideal σy process, with the decoy-state method used to extract a single-photon fidelity bound from weak-coherent statistics.

What would settle it

Recalculate the single-photon fidelity lower bound with the denominator of Eq. (S1.47) corrected from Y(0)_Lower to Y(1)_Lower, using the standard decoy-state expression $F^1_{\rm Lower} = 1 - E^1_{\rm Upper}$, and verify whether the decoy gains and error rates were recorded with the atomic-frequency-comb memory in the optical path; if the corrected $F^1_{\rm Lower}$ falls at or below 2/3, or the decoy data come from an all-optical setup without the memory, the reported more-than-12-standard-deviations certification collapses.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that a photonic qubit in the telecom C-band can be teleported into a solid-state erbium-ion ensemble memory with fidelity that cannot be explained classically. Alice's input qubit, a weak-coherent time-bin state, is interfered with the idler photon of a time-bin entangled pair on a beam splitter; the |Ψ−⟩ Bell-state outcome projects the signal photon into minus the Pauli-Y rotated input state, which then enters an atomic-frequency-comb memory prepared in 167Er3+:Y2SiO5 and is retrieved after 2187 ns. Quantum state tomography over the four input states |e⟩, |l⟩, |+⟩, and |+i⟩ gives an average fidelity of 0.818 ± 0.019, and process tomography gives a process fidelity of 0.736 ± 0.022. Because the input is a coherent state rather than a perfect single photon, the authors use the decoy-state method to bound the fidelity of the single-photon component, reporting a lower bound that clears the 2/3 classical threshold.

Load-bearing premise

The result depends on the statistical correction that converts results from faint laser pulses into an estimate for true single photons, and on that estimate being computed correctly from data that actually passed through the erbium memory; if the correction or the dataset is wrong, the margin over the classical limit loses support.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • An erbium-based solid-state quantum memory can serve as the receiving node for telecom photonic teleportation, allowing quantum-network nodes to operate directly in the fiber low-loss band.
  • Because all three photons in the experiment are at telecom wavelengths, the scheme can in principle be split across standard optical fiber between Alice and Bob without wavelength conversion.
  • The decoy-state-certified single-photon fidelity above 2/3 establishes the nonclassical character of the transfer even though the input was an attenuated laser pulse.
  • With spin-wave AFC storage, the same platform would gain on-demand readout and much longer memory times, which the authors argue raises heralded entanglement distribution rates in quantum repeaters.
  • The measured storage efficiency of roughly 1.1%, compared with the higher efficiency of an earlier praseodymium-based teleportation, identifies the efficiency gap that cavity-enhanced AFC is expected to close.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A natural next check is to repeat the teleportation with a heralded single-photon input, which would make the comparison with the 2/3 classical bound direct instead of routed through decoy-state estimation.
  • The frequency-stabilization architecture, which locks three lasers to one reference cavity, solves a practical synchronization problem for chip-source-to-memory interfaces and could transfer to other narrowband sources and memories.
  • If the corrected decoy formula were to shift the single-photon fidelity below 2/3, the central certification would fail, but the underlying memory and source demonstrations would remain useful as a chip-to-crystal interface.
  • A concrete extension would be to insert a length of fiber between Alice's beam splitter and the memory and measure how teleportation fidelity degrades with distance, a step toward a real repeater node.
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Summary. This manuscript reports an experiment claiming quantum teleportation of a time-bin qubit encoded in a weak coherent telecom-wavelength photon into a 167Er3+:Y2SiO5 atomic-frequency-comb quantum memory. The authors generate narrow-band time-bin entangled photon pairs from a silicon-nitride microring, perform a Bell-state measurement on the idler and input photons, store the signal photon in the erbium ensemble, and retrieve it for quantum state tomography. They report an average state fidelity of 0.818±0.019 and a process fidelity of 0.736±0.022, with claims that these exceed classical limits, and use a decoy-state method to claim a single-photon teleportation fidelity lower bound of 81.82±1.25%. The supplementary notes contain the frequency stabilization, HOM interference model, quantum memory characterization, classical bound calculation, and decoy-state analysis.

Significance. If properly certified, this would be a notable advance: the first quantum teleportation of a photonic qubit into an erbium-based telecom-band solid-state memory, combining an integrated SiN photon-pair source with a rare-earth AFC memory. The experiment is technically demanding: three lasers are frequency-locked over a 600-GHz span, the source is characterized via frequency-resolved HOM interference, and the retrieved states are measured by QST/QPT with Monte Carlo uncertainties. The direct fidelity measurements are not derived from a model, and the manuscript includes explicit efficiency and error analyses. However, the certification that the memory-inclusive teleportation is quantum is currently not established by the statistics as presented.

major comments (4)
  1. [Main text, 'Quantum Teleportation Results'; Note S11, Eq. (S1.39)] The measured average fidelity 0.818±0.019 is claimed to be 'more than seven standard deviations above the classical bound of 2/3', but the input is a weak coherent state with mean photon number μ=0.0825. For such an input the coherent-state classical bound is 0.812 (Note S11), so the memory-inclusive data exceed that bound by only 0.3σ. This is the central certification step for teleportation into the erbium memory; comparing to 2/3 is not justified for weak coherent inputs, and the claim as written is unsupported.
  2. [Main text, DSM paragraph; Note S12] The decoy-state single-photon lower bound F1_Lower = 81.82±1.25% (stated as exceeding 2/3 by more than 12σ) is explicitly said to be 'based on all-optical setup'. The main text uses this bound to certify the teleportation system, but the central claim of the paper is teleportation into and out of the 167Er3+ memory. If Table S1/S2 data were collected without the quantum memory, the DSM analysis does not certify the memory-inclusive teleportation; the authors must either confirm that the DSM data include the memory or redo the certification with memory-inclusive data.
  3. [Eq. (S1.47), Note S12] The upper bound on the single-photon error rate E(1) is written with Y(0)_Lower in the denominator, but the derivation requires Y(1)_Lower (the lower bound on the single-photon yield) in the denominator after subtracting the vacuum contribution. As written, the formula is dimensionally and algebraically incorrect, and the 12σ margin must be recomputed once the typo is fixed.
  4. [Main text, QPT paragraph] The process fidelity 0.736±0.022 is compared with the maximum process fidelity of 0.5 for a classical strategy, but no classical bound for process fidelity under weak coherent inputs is derived. For the state fidelity the coherent-state bound is already 0.812 (Note S11), and an analogous bound for the process fidelity should be established before claiming that the process exceeds the classical limit. Without this, the process-fidelity comparison is not a valid certification.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Note S12, Eq. (S1.44)] The sentence 'The gain and quantum bit error rate are given by' ends with '[ ? ]' and the citation is missing; please add the reference.
  2. [Fig. 2 caption] The third panel is labeled '(c)' twice; the panel for Δ = 0.511 GHz should be '(d)'.
  3. [Main text, 'Input State Preparation'] 'Adjacent pluses' should read 'adjacent pulses'.
  4. [Note S11] The relation between the 'old' and 'new' photon-pair source data should be stated explicitly in the main text; Table 1 reports the memory-inclusive fidelities, whereas Table S1 reports all-optical fidelities with the improved source, and the reader should not have to infer which dataset is being referenced.
  5. [Note S1, Eq. (S1.4)] The sign of the |Ψ−⟩ term in the expansion differs from the subsequently stated projected state; please check the expansion or add a sentence explaining the sign convention.

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No circular derivation chain: teleportation fidelities are direct tomography measurements, and the classical and single-photon bounds are external benchmarks evaluated at measured parameters.

full rationale

The central result is an experimental state fidelity F = 0.818 ± 0.019 and process fidelity 0.736 ± 0.022 obtained by QST/QPT of retrieved photons after teleportation into the 167Er3+ AFC memory; these quantities come from measured coincidence counts, not from a fitted model whose output is then relabeled as a prediction. The classical limit quoted in the main text (2/3) is the standard single-photon bound, while Note S11 separately evaluates the weak-coherent-state bound F_class = 0.812 from Eq. (S1.39) at the measured mu_input = 0.0825; the mismatch between these benchmarks is a consistency issue in the comparison, not a circular reduction. The decoy-state lower bound F1_Lower is computed from measured gains and QBERs using the standard decoy-state estimator, Eqs. (S1.44)-(S1.49); although the decoy-state references include a coauthor, the estimator is externally established and does not assume the target fidelity. No fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction, no definition embeds the target quantity, and no load-bearing premise rests solely on the authors' own prior claims. The reliance of Table S1/Note S12 on the all-optical setup, the apparent Y(0)_Lower/Y(1)_Lower typo in Eq. (S1.47), and the unresolved '[ ? ]' citation marker in Note S12 are validity and editorial concerns about what exactly the DSM certifies, but they are not examples of a derivation reducing to its own inputs by construction.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on treating a weak coherent pulse as a qubit for tomography, on the Franson-type entanglement generated by SFWM being maximally entangled, and on the decoy-state method providing a valid lower bound on single-photon fidelity. The mean photon numbers are experimental settings chosen to maximize fidelity, and they set the value of the classical benchmark.

free parameters (3)
  • Input mean photon number μ_input = 0.0825
    Set as a trade-off between counting rate and fidelity; directly sets the coherent-state classical bound of 0.812 used in Note S11.
  • Idler mean photon number μ_idler = 0.019
    Set by on-chip pump power of 1.48 mW; higher pump increases multiphoton errors.
  • Decoy-state mean photon numbers ν1, ν2 = 0.0495, 0.0165
    Chosen for DSM estimation of single-photon fidelity in Note S12.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The weak coherent state with μ=0.0825 can be treated as a qubit after post-selection for the purpose of quantum state and process tomography.
    Used throughout QST/QPT; multiphoton components are handled by DSM instead of by direct single-photon heralding.
  • domain assumption The Franson-type time-bin entangled state from SFWM in the SiN microring is a maximally entangled state |Φ+>.
    Eq. (S1.1); no entanglement witness beyond HOM visibility presented.
  • domain assumption The two-detector BSM on a beam splitter projects onto |Ψ-> with the identification of one early and one late click.
    Note S1; partial BSM efficiency 1/4 assumed.
  • standard math Standard linear optics and AFC quantum memory formalism.
    Background theory for the memory and the teleportation protocol.

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abstract

To realize a quantum internet, the distribution of quantum states via quantum teleportation with quantum memories is a key ingredient. Being compatible with existing fiber networks, entangled photons and quantum memories at telecom-wavelength are of central interest for such a scalable quantum network. Here, we demonstrate quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photonic qubit to a solid-state quantum memory based on erbium-ion ensembles, which have a native optical transition at 1.5 $\mu$m telecom C-band. To accomplish this, we use chip-scale silicon nitride micro-resonators to generate entangled photons with narrow linewidth, compatible with the quantum memory. We confirm the quality of the quantum teleportation procedure using quantum state and process tomography techniques, in which both the quantum state and process fidelities exceeds the classical limit. These results pave the way for the realization of scalable quantum networks based on solid-state devices.

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