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Entanglement across distant frequency bands is a crucial resource in quantum networking. However, directly entangling crossband photons, e.g., microwave and optical, is challenging. Furthermore, distributing crossband entanglement via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Haowei Shi , Quntao Zhuang

As quantum key distribution becomes increasingly practical, questions of how to effectively employ it in large-scale networks and over large distances becomes increasingly important. To that end, in this work, we model the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-03 Omar Amer , Walter O. Krawec , Bing Wang

Entanglement distillation has many applications in quantum information processing and is an important tool for improving the quality and efficiency of quantum communication, cryptography, computing, and simulation. We propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Dan Xu , Changjia Chen , Brian T. Kirby , Li Qian

Quantum entanglement is an indispensable resource for many significant quantum information processing tasks. However, because of the noise in quantum channels, it is difficult to distribute quantum entanglement over a long distance in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Zhaofeng Su , Ji Guan , Lvzhou Li

A quantum network that distributes and processes entanglement would enable powerful new computers and sensors. Optical photons with a frequency of a few hundred terahertz are perhaps the only way to distribute quantum information over long…

Entanglement is a central resource in quantum information science; therefore, it is important to design local discrimination protocols that minimize resource consumption. In this paper, we propose three entanglement-allocation schemes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Qiqi Feng , Huaqi Zhou , Limin Gao

Efficient generation and high-quality distribution of entanglement is becoming increasingly more relevant in the field of quantum technologies, with important applications such as multiparty computation as well as quantum key distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Martin Achleitner , Alessandro Trenti , Philip Walther , Hannes Hübel

Owing to the inevitable loss in communication channels, the distance of entanglement distribution is limited to approximately 100 kilometres on the ground. Quantum repeaters can circumvent this problem by using quantum memory and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Xiao Liu , Jun Hu , Zong-Feng Li , Xue Li , Pei-Yun Li , Peng-Jun Liang , Zong-Quan Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

The entanglement resource required for quantum information processing comes in a variety of forms, from Bell states to multipartite GHZ states or cluster states. Purifying these resources after their imperfect generation is an indispensable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Stefan Krastanov , Alexander Sanchez de la Cerda , Prineha Narang

Entanglement detection is a fundamental task in quantum information science, serving as a cornerstone for quantum benchmarking and foundational studies. With an increasing qubit number that can be effectively controlled, there is a pressing…

Noise and photon loss encountered on quantum channels pose a major challenge for reliable entanglement generation in quantum networks. In near-term networks, heralding is required to inform endpoints of successfully generated entanglement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Mohammad Mobayenjarihani , Gayane Vardoyan , Don Towsley

We propose a method to improve the performance of two entanglement-based continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocols using noiseless linear amplifiers. The two entanglement-based schemes consist of an entanglement distribution…

Many quantum-network applications require end-to-end Bell pairs whose fidelity exceeds a request-specific threshold, but existing entanglement routing algorithms either optimize only throughput without regard for fidelity or enforce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Anthony Gatti , Anoosha Fayyaz , Prashant Krishnamurthy , Kaushik P. Seshadreesan , Amy Babay

This paper addresses the challenge of scaling quantum computing by employing distributed quantum algorithms across multiple processors. We propose a novel circuit partitioning method that leverages graph partitioning to optimize both qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Eneet Kaur , Hassan Shapourian , Jiapeng Zhao , Michael Kilzer , Ramana Kompella , Reza Nejabati

Rapid advancements in cloud based platforms providing access to quantum computing capabilities have opened up several challenges for efficient usage of these highly delicate and costly devices. Although most of the current systems use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Abhishek Sawaika , Udaya Parampalli , Rajkumar Buyya

The evolution of quantum networking requires architectures capable of dynamically reconfigurable entanglement distribution to meet diverse user needs and ensure tolerance against transmission disruptions. We introduce multihop quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Muneer Alshowkan , Joseph M. Lukens , Hsuan-Hao Lu , Nicholas A. Peters

Distributing quantum entanglement between distant parties is a significant but difficult task in quantum information science, as it can enable numerous applications but suffers from exponential decay in the quantum channel. Quantum repeater…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Sheng Zhang , Jixuan Shi , Yibo Liang , Yuedong Sun , Yukai Wu , Luming Duan , Yunfei Pu

We develop new routing algorithms for a quantum network with noisy quantum devices such that each can store a small number of qubits. We thereby consider two models for the operation of such a network. The first is a continuous model, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 Kaushik Chakraborty , Filip Rozpedek , Axel Dahlberg , Stephanie Wehner

We propose a realistic protocol to generate entanglement between quantum memories at neighboring nodes in hybrid quantum repeaters. Generated entanglement includes only one type of error, which enables efficient entanglement distillation.…

We present an efficient quantum entanglement distribution over an arbitrary collective-noise channel. The basic idea in the present scheme is that two parties in quantum communication first transmit the entangled states in the frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yu-Bo Sheng , Fu-Guo Deng