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Large-scale quantum networks have been employed to overcome practical constraints of transmissions and storage for single entangled systems. Our goal in this article is to explore the strong entanglement distribution of quantum networks. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Xue Yang , Yan-Han Yang , Ming-Xing Luo

Quantum communication is developed owing to the theoretically proven security of quantum mechanics, which may become the main technique in future information security. However, most studies and implementations are limited to two or several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Xu Liu , Rong Xue , Heqing Wang , Hao Li , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Kaiyu Cui , Zhen Wang , Lixing You , Yidong Huang , Wei Zhang

To construct a quantum network with many end users, it is critical to have a cost-efficient way to distribute entanglement over different network ends. We demonstrate an entanglement access network, where the expensive resource, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 X. Y. Chang , D. L. Deng , X. X. Yuan , P. Y. Hou , Y. Y. Huang , L. M. Duan

The realization of a global quantum network holds the potential to enable groundbreaking applications such as secure quantum communication and blind quantum computing. However, building such a network remains a formidable challenge,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jia-Wei Ji , Shinichi Sunami , Seigo Kikura , Akihisa Goban , Christoph Simon

Quantum networking can be realized by distributing pairs of entangled qubits between remote quantum processing nodes. Devoted communication qubits within each node can naturally interface with photons which bus quantum information between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Ely Novakoski , Jungsang Kim

Entangled photons are pivotal elements in emerging quantum information technologies. While several schemes are available for the production of entangled photons, they typically require the assistance of cumbersome optical elements to couple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

Small interconnected quantum processors can collaborate to tackle quantum computational problems that typically demand more capable devices. These linked processors, referred to as quantum nodes, can use shared entangled states to execute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Lars Talsma , Álvaro G. Iñesta , Stephanie Wehner

We have realized experimentally a non-degenerate polarization-entangled photon pair distribution in a commercial telecom dense wave-division multiplexing device (DWDM) with 8 channels. A promising point of this work is that the entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yun-Kun Jiang , Dong-Sheng Ding , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

We demonstrate entanglement distribution between two remote quantum nodes located 3 meters apart. This distribution involves the asynchronous preparation of two pairs of atomic memories and the coherent mapping of stored atomic states into…

Transmitting entangled states over long distances is crucial for developing quantum networks. Previous demonstrations using satellites or fibers relied on photon pairs generated from bulk crystal arrangements. Polarization entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jinyi Du , Xingjian Zhang , George F. R. Chen , Hongwei Gao , Dawn T. H. Tan , Alexander Ling

Entangled photons are crucial resources for quantum information processing. Here, we present an ultrabright polarization-entangled photon source based on a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide designed for practical quantum…

We study the operation of linear optics schemes for entanglement distribution based on nonlocal photon subtraction when input states, produced by imperfect single-photon sources, exhibit both vacuum and multiphoton contributions. Two models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Mikołaj Lasota , Czesław Radzewicz , Konrad Banaszek , Rob Thew

We propose an approach to distribute high-fidelity long-range entanglement in a quantum network assisted by the entanglement supplied by auxiliary short-range paths between the network nodes. Entanglement assistance in the form of shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Siddhartha Santra , Vladimir S. Malinovsky

A wireless quantum network is generated between multi-hop, where each hop consists of two entangled nodes. These nodes share a finite number of entangled two qubit systems randomly. Different types of wireless quantum bridges are generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 N. Metwally

Quantum networks are essential to quantum information distributed applications, and communicating over them is a key challenge. Complex networks have rich and intriguing properties, which are as yet unexplored in the quantum setting. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-15 M. Cuquet , J. Calsamiglia

The topology of classical networks is determined by physical links between nodes, and after a network request the links are used to establish the desired connections. Quantum networks offer the possibility to generate different kinds of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Jorge Miguel-Ramiro , Alexander Pirker , Wolfgang Dür

Entangled states shared among distant nodes are frequently used in quantum network applications. When quantum resources are abundant, entangled states can be continuously distributed across the network, allowing nodes to consume them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Álvaro G. Iñesta , Stephanie Wehner

Feasible distribution of quantum entanglement over long distances remains a fundamental step towards quantum secure communication and quantum network implementations. Quantum repeater nodes based on quantum memories promise to overcome…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Michał Lipka , Mateusz Mazelanik , Michał Parniak

Effective routing of entanglements over a quantum network is a fundamental problem in quantum communication. Due to the fragility of quantum states, it is difficult to route entanglements at long distances. Graph states can be utilized for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Nirupam Basak , Goutam Paul

Entanglement resources can increase transmission rates substantially. Unfortunately, entanglement is a fragile resource that is quickly degraded by decoherence effects. In order to generate entanglement for optical communication, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Uzi Pereg , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche