Space-quest, experiments with quantum entanglement in space

R. Ursin; T. Jennewein; J. Kofler; J.M. Perdigues; L. Cacciapuoti; C.J. de Matos; M. Aspelmeyer; A. Valencia; T. Scheidl; A. Acin; C. Barbieri; G. Bianco; C. Brukner; J. Capmany; S. Cova; D. Giggenbach; W. Leeb; R.H. Hadfield; R. Laflamme; N. Lütkenhaus; G. Milburn; M. Peev; T. Ralph; J. Rarity; R. Renner; E. Samain; N. Solomos; W. Tittel; J.P. Torres; M. Toyoshima; A. Ortigosa-Blanch; V. Pruneri; P. Villoresi; I. Walmsley; G. Weihs; H. Weinfurter; M. Zukowski; A. Zeilinger

doi:doi:10.1051/epn/2009503

Europhysics News Vol. 40, No. 3, 2009, pp. 26-29
DOI: 10.1051/epn/2009503

Space-quest, experiments with quantum entanglement in space

R. Ursin^{1, 2}, T. Jennewein², J. Kofler^{1, 2}, J.M. Perdigues³, L. Cacciapuoti³, C.J. de Matos³, M. Aspelmeyer², A. Valencia⁴, T. Scheidl², A. Acin⁴, C. Barbieri⁵, G. Bianco⁶, C. Brukner^{1, 2}, J. Capmany⁷, S. Cova⁸, D. Giggenbach⁹, W. Leeb¹⁰, R.H. Hadfield¹¹, R. Laflamme¹², N. Lütkenhaus¹², G. Milburn¹³, M. Peev¹⁴, T. Ralph¹³, J. Rarity¹⁵, R. Renner¹⁶, E. Samain¹⁷, N. Solomos^{18, 19}, W. Tittel²⁰, J.P. Torres⁴, M. Toyoshima²¹, A. Ortigosa-Blanch⁷, V. Pruneri^{4, 22}, P. Villoresi^{23, 24}, I. Walmsley²⁵, G. Weihs¹², H. Weinfurter²⁶, M. Zukowski²⁷ and A. Zeilinger^{1, 2}

¹ Faculty of Physics, Univ. of Vienna, Austria
² Inst. for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
³ European Space Agency (ESA), Head Quarters, France
⁴ ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
⁵ Dip. di Astronomia, Univ. of Padova, Italy
⁶ Matera Space Geodesy Center, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Italy
⁷ Inst. of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (ITEAM), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
⁸ Dip. Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
⁹ Inst. für Kommunikation und Navigation, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
¹⁰ Inst. of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
¹¹ School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
¹² Inst. für Experimentalphysik, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria
¹³ Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
¹⁴ Smart Systems, ARC -Austrian Research Centers GmbH, Austria
¹⁵ Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Bristol, UK
¹⁶ Inst. for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
¹⁷ Obs. de la Cote d'Azur, France
¹⁸ Pure and Applied Physics Lab., Hellenic Naval Academy, Piraeus, Greece
¹⁹ EUDOXOS Obs., Kefalinia, Greece
²⁰ Inst. for Quantum Information Science, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
²¹ Space Communication Group, National Inst. of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan
²² Inst. Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Spain
²³ Dept. of Information Engineering (DEI), Univ. of Padova, Italy
²⁴ Inst. Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (INFM-CNR), Italy
²⁵ Atomic and Laser Physics, Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford, UK
²⁶ Dept. für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. (LMU), Munich, Germany
²⁷ Inst. for Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Univ. of Gdansk, Poland

Published online: 4 June 2009