Maryland Testbed
About the Maryland Testbed
The CQN Maryland Testbed is hosted at the College Park Campus of the University of Maryland and provides a place to integrate trapped-ion quantum processors, diamond color center quantum memory, quantum frequency conversion, and highly-multiplexed entanglement photon source. The testbed aims to demonstrate entanglement distribution with ever-increasing levels of performance as the program progresses, and test out resource allocation and management protocols developed in the project.
The testbed is deployed on the scientific-grade fiber network between four buildings on campus: Kim Engineering Building (KEB), Atlantic Building (ATL), Physical Sciences Complex (PSC), and Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics (IREAP). The 5th building is under construction and will be connected to KEB. By merging novel techniques developed by the Boston testbed team and other collaborators, the Maryland testbed is building the world’s first quantum network testbed for highly-multiplexed heterogeneous entanglement distribution and error correction.