Practical Real-Time Phase Drift Compensation Scheme for Quantum Communication Systems

oleh: Xiaotian Song, Chunsheng Zhang, Dong Pan, Min Wang, Jianxing Guo, Feihao Zhang, Guilu Long

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: MDPI AG 2023-10-01

Deskripsi

Quantum communication systems are susceptible to various perturbations and drifts arising from the operational environment, with phase drift being a crucial challenge. In this paper, we propose an efficient real-time phase drift compensation scheme in which only existing data from the quantum communication process is used to establish a stable closed-loop control subsystem for phase tracking. This scheme ensures the continuous operation of transmission by tracking and compensating for phase drift in the phase-encoding quantum communication system. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed scheme with an average quantum bit error rate of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1.60</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>% and a standard deviation of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>0.0583</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>% for 16 h of continuous operation.