Authors
Kirsten Kanneworff
Mio Poortvliet
Dirk Bouwmeester
Rene Allerstorfer
Philip Verduyn Lunel
Florian Speelman
Harry Buhrman
Petr Steindl
Wolfgang Löffler
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)
2025-12
Title
Towards experimental demonstration of quantum position verification using single photons
Journal
Quantum Science and Technology
Volume
10
Publication Year
2025-12
Issue number
4
Document type
Article
Abstract

The geographical position can be a good credential for authentication of a party. This is the basis of position-based cryptography—but classically this cannot be done securely without physical exchange of a private key. Recently it has been shown that by combining quantum mechanics with the speed-of-light limit of special relativity, this might be possible: quantum position verification (QPV). Here we demonstrate experimentally a protocol that uses two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference at a beamsplitter, which, in combination with two additional beam splitters and four detectors is rendering the protocol resilient to loss. With this, we are able to show first results towards an experimental demonstration of QPV.

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