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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

We study the feasibility of meaningful proof-of-principle demonstrations of several quantum repeater protocols with photon (single-photon and photon-pair) sources and atomic-ensemble based quantum memories. We take into account non-unit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Yufeng Wu , Jianlong Liu , Christoph Simon

The endeavour to develop quantum networks gave rise to a rapidly developing field with far reaching applications such as secure communication and the realisation of distributed computing tasks. This ultimately calls for the creation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 J. Wallnöfer , M. Zwerger , C. Muschik , N. Sangouard , W. Dür

We propose a heralded quantum repeater based on the scattering of photons off single emitters in one-dimensional waveguides. We show the details by implementing nonlocal entanglement generation, entanglement swapping, and entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Guo-Zhu Song , Mei Zhang , Qing Ai , Guo-Jian Yang , Ahmed Alsaedi , Aatef Hobiny , Fu-Guo Deng

Quantum memory plays a pivotal role in the construction of quantum repeaters, which are essential devices for establishing long-distance quantum communications and large-scale quantum networks. To boost information capacity and signal…

Trapped ions form an advanced technology platform for quantum information processing with long qubit coherence times, high-fidelity quantum logic gates, optically active qubits, and a potential to scale up in size while preserving a high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Prajit Dhara , Norbert M. Linke , Edo Waks , Saikat Guha , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan

Quantum repeaters -- important components of a scalable quantum internet -- enable the entanglement to be distributed over long distances. The standard paradigm for a quantum repeater relies on a necessary demanding requirement of quantum…

Solid-state quantum emitters are excellent sources of on-demand indistinguishable or entangled photons and can host long-lived spin memories, crucial resources for photonic quantum information applications. However, their scalability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Zhe-Xian Koong , Guillem Ballesteros-Garcia , Raphaël Proux , Dan Dalacu , Philip J. Poole , Brian D. Gerardot

The light-matter quantum interface that can create quantum-correlations or entanglement between a photon and one atomic collective excitation is a fundamental building block for a quantum repeater. The intrinsic limit is that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Long Tian , Zhongxiao Xu , Lirong Chen , Wei Ge , Haoxiang Yuan , Yafei Wen , Shengzhi Wang , Shujing Li , Hai Wang

Quantum repeater is one of the important building blocks for long distance quantum communication network. The previous quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optical elements can only be performed with a maximal success…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Tao Li , Fu-Guo Deng

Quantum repeaters and satellite-based optical links are complementary technological approaches to overcome the exponential photon loss in optical fibers and thus allow quantum communication on a global scale. We analyze architectures which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Jaspar Meister , Philipp Kleinpaß , Davide Orsucci

Remote quantum entanglement can enable numerous applications including distributed quantum computation, secure communication, and precision sensing. In this paper, we consider how a quantum network-nodes equipped with limited quantum…

The quantum interface (QI) that generates entanglement between photonic and spin-wave (atomic memory) qubits is a basic building block for quantum repeaters. Realizing ensemble-based repeaters in practice requires quantum memory providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Shengzhi Wang , Minjie Wang , Yafei Wen , Zhongxiao Xu , Tengfei Ma , Shujing Li , Hai Wang

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

We investigate quantum repeater protocols based upon atomic qubit-entanglement distribution through optical coherent-state communication. Various measurement schemes for an optical mode entangled with two spatially separated atomic qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 Peter van Loock , Norbert Lütkenhaus , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Quantum repeaters based on heralded entanglement require quantum nodes that are able to generate multimode quantum correlations between memories and telecommunication photons. The communication rate scales linearly with the number of modes,…

In the framework of cavity QED, we propose a quantum repeater scheme that uses coherent light and atoms coupled to optical cavities. In contrast to conventional schemes, we exploit solely the cavity QED evolution for the entire quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Denis Gonta , Peter van Loock

Existing classical optical network infrastructure cannot be immediately used for quantum network applications due to photon loss. The first step towards enabling quantum networks is the integration of quantum repeaters into optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Hassan Shapourian , Alireza Shabani , Ramana Kompella , Don Towsley

Practical realizations of quantum repeaters require quantum memory simultaneously providing high retrieval efficiency, long lifetime and multimode storages. So far, the combination of high retrieval efficiency and spatially multiplexed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Minjie Wang , Haole Jiao , Jiajin Lu , Wenxin Fan , Zhifang Yang , Mengqi Xi , Shujing Li , Hai Wang

Quantum networking seeks to enable global entanglement distribution through terrestrial and free space channels; however, the exponential loss in these channels necessitates quantum repeaters with efficient, long lived quantum memories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Connor Casey , Albert Williams , Catherine McCaffrey , Eugene Rotherham , Nathan Darby