Eliminating photon transport in long-baseline optical interferometry using quantum memories

Quantum Physics arXiv:2608.10078 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 10 Aug 2026] Title:Eliminating photon transport in long-baseline optical interferometry using quantum memories Authors:Yousef K. Chahine, Chaohan Cui, William DeRocco, Daniel Gottesman, Saikat Guha, Emil T. Khabiboulline, Zhenning Liu, Brittany McClinton, Jayadev Rajagopal, Fredrik Rantakyro, J. Gabriel Richardson, Stephen Ridgway, Aqil Sajjad, Joohyung Song View a PDF of the paper titled Eliminating photon transport in long-baseline optical interferometry using quantum memories, by Yousef K. Chahine and 13 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:In this paper, we describe the fundamental operating mechanisms of optical interferometry using quantum memory and entanglement. We show how these remove the optical delay line bottleneck. Quantum memory is not without its own set of challenges, some of which include very small bandwidths as well as limitations in storage time. We examine the influence of timing artifacts on memory photon capture probability and interferometric complex visibility. We highlight keystone areas of technology that require further development and are essential to realizing these opportunities, as well as ongoing work to overcome these challenges. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) Cite as: arXiv:2608.10078 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2608.10078v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.10078 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Joseph Gabriel Richardson [view email] [v1] Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:00:05 UTC (66 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Eliminating photon transport in long-baseline optical interferometry using quantum memories, by Yousef K. Chahine and 13 other authorsView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: astro-ph astro-ph.IM References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)