All-Photonic Quantum Repeater for Multipartite Entanglement Generation
Abstract
Quantum network applications like distributed quantum computing and quantum secret sharing present a promising future network equipped with quantum resources. Entanglement generation and distribution over long distances is critical and unavoidable to utilize quantum technology in a fully-connected network. The distribution of bipartite entanglement over long distances has seen some progresses, while the distribution of multipartite entanglement over long distances remains unsolved. Here we report a two-dimensional quantum repeater protocol for the generation of multipartite entanglement over long distances with all-photonic framework to fill this gap. The yield of the proposed protocol shows long transmission distance under various numbers of network users. With the improved efficiency and flexibility of extending the number of users, we anticipate that our protocol can work as a significant building block for quantum networks in the future.
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@article{arxiv.2212.05224,
title = {All-Photonic Quantum Repeater for Multipartite Entanglement Generation},
author = {Chen-Long Li and Yao Fu and Wen-Bo Liu and Yuan-Mei Xie and Bing-Hong Li and Min-Gang Zhou and Hua-Lei Yin and Zeng-Bing Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.05224},
year = {2023}
}