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Harald Weinfurter is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research is concentrated primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions spanning topics such as Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture.

Weinfurter's work encompasses a range of subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Hardware and Architecture. Their expertise extends into topics related to Quantum optics and atomic interactions, Cryptographic Implementations and Security, Wireless Signal Modulation Classification, and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics.

They have published multiple papers across prominent venues in the field, including:

  • A device-independent quantum key distribution system for distant users (2022, Nature)
  • Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre (2022, Nature)
  • Long-Distance Distribution of Atom-Photon Entanglement at Telecom Wavelength (2020, Physical Review Letters)
  • Advances in device-independent quantum key distribution (2023, npj Quantum Information)
  • Quantum networks with neutral atom processing nodes (2023, npj Quantum Information)

The research has been published frequently in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), npj Quantum Information, Nature, Physical Review Applied, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Frequent collaborators include Tim van Leent, Lukas Knips, Florian Fertig, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, and Christoph Becher, with multiple joint publications expanding their collective work in quantum technologies.

Best Publications

  • Experimental quantum teleportation

    D. Bouwmeester;J.-W. Pan;K. Mattle;M. Eibl

  • Elementary gates for quantum computation.

    Adriano Barenco;Charles H. Bennett;Richard Cleve;David P. DiVincenzo

  • New high-intensity source of polarization-entangled photon pairs.

    Paul G. Kwiat;Klaus Mattle;Harald Weinfurter;Anton Zeilinger

  • Violation of Bell's inequality under strict Einstein locality conditions

    Gregor Weihs;Thomas Jennewein;Christoph Simon;Harald Weinfurter

  • Stable Solid-State Source of Single Photons

    Christian Kurtsiefer;Sonja Mayer;Patrick Zarda;Harald Weinfurter

  • Dense Coding in Experimental Quantum Communication

    Klaus Mattle;Harald Weinfurter;Paul G. Kwiat;Paul G. Kwiat;Anton Zeilinger

  • Experimental Entanglement Swapping: Entangling Photons That Never Interacted

    Jian-Wei Pan;Dik Bouwmeester;Harald Weinfurter;Anton Zeilinger

  • Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry

    Jian-Wei Pan;Zeng-Bing Chen;Chao-Yang Lu;Harald Weinfurter

  • Experimental One-Way Quantum Computing

    P. Walther;K. J. Resch;T. Rudolph;E. Schenck;E. Schenck

  • Entanglement-based quantum communication over 144km

    R. Ursin;F. Tiefenbacher;F. Tiefenbacher;T. Schmitt-Manderbach;H. Weier

  • Observation of three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement

    Dik Bouwmeester;Jian-Wei Pan;Matthew Daniell;Harald Weinfurter

  • Quantum cryptography with entangled photons

    Thomas Jennewein;Christoph Simon;Gregor Weihs;Harald Weinfurter

  • Experimental test of quantum nonlocality in three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement

    Jian-Wei Pan;Dik Bouwmeester;Matthew Daniell;Harald Weinfurter

  • Experimental demonstration of free-space decoy-state quantum key distribution over 144 km

    Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach;Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach;Henning Weier;Martin Fürst;Rupert Ursin

  • The SECOQC quantum key distribution network in Vienna

    M. Peev;C. Pacher;R. Alléaume;Claudio Barreiro

  • Realizable Universal Quantum Logic Gates.

    Tycho Sleator;Harald Weinfurter

  • Interaction-free measurement.

    Paul Kwiat;Harald Weinfurter;Thomas Herzog;Anton Zeilinger

  • Experimental detection of multipartite entanglement using witness operators.

    Mohamed Bourennane;Manfred Eibl;Christian Kurtsiefer;Sascha Gaertner

  • Secure Communication with a Publicly Known Key

    Almut Beige;Berthold-Georg Englert;Christian Kurtsiefer;Harald Weinfurter

  • A fast and compact quantum random number generator

    Thomas Jennewein;Ulrich Achleitner;Gregor Weihs;Harald Weinfurter

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger University of Vienna
John Rarity
John Rarity University of Bristol
Géza Tóth
Géza Tóth University of the Basque Country
Paul G. Kwiat
Paul G. Kwiat University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jian-Wei Pan
Jian-Wei Pan University of Science and Technology of China
Thomas Jennewein
Thomas Jennewein University of Waterloo
Nicolas Gisin
Nicolas Gisin University of Geneva
Renato Renner
Renato Renner ETH Zurich
Vlatko Vedral
Vlatko Vedral University of Oxford
Philippe Grangier
Philippe Grangier University of Paris-Saclay

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