High-quality quantum process tomography of time-bin qubit’s transmission over a metropolitan fiber network and its application

We employ quantum state and process tomography with time-bin qubits to benchmark a city-wide metropolitan quantum communication system.Over this network,we implement real-time feedback control systems for stabilizing the phase of the time-bin qubits and obtain a 99.3%quantum process fidelity to the ideal channel,indicating the high quality of the whole quantum communication system.This allows us to implement a field trial of high-performance quantum key distribution using coherent one way protocol with an average quantum bit error rate and visibility of 0.25%and 99.2%during 12 h over 61 km.Our results pave the way for the high-performance quantum network with metropolitan fibers.