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Ultrafast and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Communication across Long Distances

Quantum Physics 2014-07-01 v2

Abstract

Quantum repeaters (QRs) provide a way of enabling long distance quantum communication by establishing entangled qubits between remote locations. We investigate a new approach to QRs in which quantum information can be faithfully transmitted via a noisy channel without the use of long distance teleportation, thus eliminating the need to establish remote entangled links. Our approach makes use of small encoding blocks to fault-tolerantly correct both operational and photon loss errors. We describe a way to optimize the resource requirement for these QRs with the aim of the generation of a secure key. Numerical calculations indicate that the number of quantum memory bits required for our scheme has favorable poly-logarithmic scaling with the distance across which the communication is desired.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5291,
  title  = {Ultrafast and Fault-Tolerant Quantum Communication across Long Distances},
  author = {Sreraman Muralidharan and Jungsang Kim and Norbert Lütkenhaus and Mikhail D. Lukin and Liang Jiang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5291},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages + supplemental material (updated in new version)