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Entanglement swapping is a key primitive for distributing entanglement across nodes in quantum networks. In standard protocols, the outcome of the intermediate measurement determines the resulting state, making the process inherently…

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Recent technological advancements in satellite based quantum communication has made it a promising technology for realizing global scale quantum networks. Due to better loss distance scaling compared to ground based fiber communication,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Nitish K. Panigrahy , Prajit Dhara , Don Towsley , Saikat Guha , Leandros Tassiulas

Entanglement distribution is key to the success of secure communication schemes based on quantum mechanics, and there is a strong need for an ultimate architecture able to overcome the limitations of recent proposals such as those based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Alexander Streltsov , Remigiusz Augusiak , Maciej Demianowicz , Maciej Lewenstein

A quantum network is a network of entangled states and can be used to transmit quantum information. Non-maximally entangled states are not really effective in establishing quantum communication across vast distances. Creating and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Deep Nath , Soumen Roy

Distributing quantum state and entanglement between distant nodes is a crucial task in distributed quantum information processing on large-scale quantum networks. Quantum network coding provides an alternative solution for quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 He Lu , Zheng-Da Li , Xu-Fei Yin , Rui Zhang , Xiao-Xu Fang , Li Li , Nai-Le Liu , Feihu Xu , Yu-Ao Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

Remote entanglement between widely separated qubits is a fundamental quantum phenomenon and a critical resource for quantum information applications. Generating entanglement between independent qubits separated by arbitrary, potentially…

We consider qubit networks where adjacent qubits besides interacting via XY-coupling, also dissipate into the same environment. The steady states are computed exactly for all network sizes and topologies, showing that they are always…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-27 Morteza Rafiee , Cosmo Lupo , Hossein Mokhtari , Stefano Mancini

Entanglement-based quantum networks exhibit a unique flexibility in the choice of entangled resource states that are then locally manipulated by the nodes to fulfill any request in the network. Furthermore, this manipulation is not uniquely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Maria Flors Mor-Ruiz , Julius Wallnöfer , Wolfgang Dür

Long-range entanglement distribution in a quantum network relies on entanglement swapping at intermediate nodes along a network path to connect short-range entangled states established over the network edges. The end-to-end entanglement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Md Sohel Mondal , Aniket Zambare , Siddhartha Santra

In a quantum communication network, links represent entanglement between qubits located at different nodes. Even if two nodes are not directly linked by shared entanglement, communication channels can be established between them via quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Xiangyi Meng , Bingjie Hao , Balázs Ráth , István A. Kovács

The potential impact of future quantum networks hinges on high-quality quantum entanglement shared between network nodes. Unavoidable real-world imperfections necessitate means to improve remote entanglement by local quantum operations.…

Quantum networks with bipartite resources and shared randomness present the simplest infrastructure for implementing a future quantum internet. Here, we shall investigate which kinds of entanglement can or cannot be generated from this kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Xiang Zhou , Zhen-Peng Xu , Liang-Liang Sun , Chunfeng Wu , Sixia Yu

A simple model of small world quantum networks, in which a central node plays essential role, is introduced for sharing entanglement over long distances. In view of the challenges in setting up advanced quantum labs which allows only few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Ashkan Abedi , Vahid Karimipour

Quantum entanglement distribution between remote nodes is key to many promising quantum applications. Existing mechanisms have mainly focused on improving throughput and fidelity via entanglement routing or single-node scheduling. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Huayue Gu , Ruozhou Yu , Zhouyu Li , Xiaojian Wang , Fangtong Zhou

Quantum networks constitute a major part of quantum technologies. They will boost distributed quantum computing drastically by providing a scalable modular architecture of quantum chips, or by establishing an infrastructure for measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Seid Koudia

In a distributed quantum computer scalability is accomplished by networking together many elementary nodes. Typically the network is optical and inter-node entanglement involves photon detection. In complex networks the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Simon C. Benjamin , Joseph Fitzsimons

How to efficiently distribute entanglement over large-scale quantum networks is still an open problem that greatly depends on the technology considered. In this work, we consider quantum networks where each link is characterized by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Bruno C. Coutinho , Raul Monteiro , Luís Bugalho , Francisco A. Monteiro

Distributing entangled pairs among multiple users is a fundamental problem in quantum networks. Existing protocols like $X$ protocol introduced in (npj Quantum Information 5, 76 (2019)) use graph theoretic tools like local complementation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Vaisakh Mannalath , Anirban Pathak

A key technical requirement of any future quantum network is the ability to distribute quantum-entangled resources between two spatially separated points at a high rate and high fidelity. Entanglement distribution protocols based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Nicholas Zaunders , Timothy C. Ralph

Entanglement is one of the key resources of quantum information science which makes identification of entangled states essential to a wide range of quantum technologies and phenomena. This problem is however both computationally and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Mohammad Yosefpor , Mohammad Reza Mostaan , Sadegh Raeisi