Plans for the research to be performed under U.S. Army Research Office Grant DAAD19-00-1-0177, “Quantum Information Technology: Entanglement, Teleportation, and Quantum Memory,” were described at the Quantum Communication and Memory Kickoff Meeting, held at Fort Monmouth, NJ, in June 2000.

An overview of the MIT/NU program (PDF) was presented by Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro of MIT, the program's Principal Investigator. The central thrust of the MIT portion of the program is a singlet-state architecture for long-distance, high-fidelity teleportation. Its essential components, conceived and to be developed by members of the MURI team are: an ultrabright narrowband source of polarization-entangled photon pairs, a trapped-atom quantum memory (PDF), and an architecture for connecting these source and memory elements via standard telecommunication fiber. The second major thrust area for the MIT/NU MURI program is the development of quadrature-based teleportation using a fiber-optic entanglement source (PDF). Additional efforts, under this program, will be devoted to a variety of theoretical problems related to the applications of entanglement and quantum communication.

An update of research progress from the program's first year, was given by Professor Jeffrey H. Shapiro of MIT and Professor Prem Kumar of Northwestern University at the MURI review in November 2001. Slides from Professor Shapiro's presentation (PDF) describe the overall program, plus work on quantum communication architectures, parametric-amplifier entanglement sources, atom trapping, and entanglement applications. Slides from Professor Kumar's presentation (PDF) describe progress on fiber-based entanglement sources, quantum precision measurements, and quantum cryptography.

The MIT/NU MURI program underwent a full-day review in October 2002, during its third year of existence. The full set of presentations from that review provides in-depth coverage of the program's many accomplishments. In going forward from that review, the MURI effort was refocused on its core agenda, i.e., technology development and supporting theory for long-distance, high-fidelity qubit teleportation.

The MIT/NU MURI program had another review in November 2003. The full set of presentations from that review provides a detailed update on the program's progress towards its fundamental goals.