Long-Distance Entanglement Distribution with Single-Photon Sources

Nicolas Sangouard; Christoph Simon; Jiri Minar; Hugo Zbinden; Hugues de Riedmatten; Nicolas Gisin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.76.050301

Long-Distance Entanglement Distribution with Single-Photon Sources

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Authors: Nicolas Sangouard , Christoph Simon , Jiri Minar , Hugo Zbinden , Hugues de Riedmatten , Nicolas Gisin

Journal reference: Phys. Rev. A 76, 050301(R) (2007)

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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Abstract

We present an efficient architecture for quantum repeaters based on single-photon sources in combination with quantum memories for photons. Errors inherent to previous repeater protocols using photon-pair sources are eliminated, leading to a significant gain in efficiency. We establish the requirements on the single-photon sources and on the photon detectors.

Keywords

single-photon sources quantum networks quantum memory

Cite

@article{arxiv.0706.1924,
  title  = {Long-Distance Entanglement Distribution with Single-Photon Sources},
  author = {Nicolas Sangouard and Christoph Simon and Jiri Minar and Hugo Zbinden and Hugues de Riedmatten and Nicolas Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1924},
  year   = {2009}
}

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