Scalable Ion-Trap Quantum Network (SciNet)
The SciNet project aims to realize a three-node quantum network, distributed across the University of Innsbruck campus, and to develop techniques to enable large-scale quantum networking. Each node will be a trapped-ion system equipped with an optical cavity, for enhanced control over the interaction of light and matter, and a register of ions with quantum-logic capabilities. On-demand photons, emitted by and entangled with one or more ion in each node, will be distributed in an inter-node optical fiber network. The SciNet project consists of four teams of experimental physicists, one for each network node in Innsbruck and a fourth at Stanford University, and two teams of theoretical physicists, in Innsbruck and Basel.