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Entanglement distillation is a key component of modular quantum computing and long-range quantum communications. However, this powerful tool to reduce noise in entangled states is difficult to realize in practice for two main reasons.…

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Generation and preservation of quantum entanglement are among the primary tasks in quantum information processing. State stabilization via quantum bath engineering offers a resource-efficient approach to achieve this objective. However,…

We consider the fundamental protocol of dense coding of classical information assuming that noise affects both the forward and backward communication lines between Alice and Bob. Assuming that this noise is described by the same quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Riccardo Laurenza , Cosmo Lupo , Seth Lloyd , Stefano Pirandola

We study the problem of entanglement distribution in terms of maximizing a utility function that captures the total fidelity of end-to-end entanglements in a two-link linear quantum network with a source, a repeater, and a destination. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Iordanis Koutsopoulos

In this article, we investigate the purity dynamics of entangled 2 two-level atoms interacting with a single quantized electromagnetic field. We show that the purity of the qubit pairs depends on the initial state of the atomic system. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-20 Nasser Metwally

Entanglement purification protocols play an important role in the distribution of entangled systems, which is necessary for various quantum information processing applications. We consider the effects of photo-detector efficiency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter P. Rohde , Timothy C. Ralph , William J. Munro

In an entanglement distribution network, the function of a quantum switch is to generate elementary entanglement with its clients followed by entanglement swapping to distribute end-to-end entanglement of sufficiently high fidelity between…

Entanglement offers substantial advantages in quantum information processing, but loss and noise hinder its applications in practical scenarios. Although it has been well known for decades that the classical communication capacity over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Haowei Shi , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Quantum networks will be able to service consumers with long-distance entanglement by use of quantum repeaters that generate Bell pairs (or links) with their neighbors, iid with probability $p$ and perform Bell State Measurements (BSMs) on…

We introduce a class of multiparticle entanglement purification protocols that allow us to distill a large class of entangled states. These include cluster states, GHZ states and various error correction codes all of which belong to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Dür , H. Aschauer , H. -J. Briegel

We present an improved protocol for entanglement purification of bipartite mixed states using several states at a time rather than two at a time as in the traditional recurrence method. We also present a generalization of the hashing method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elitza N. Maneva , John A. Smolin

We consider properties of states of many qubits, which arise after sending certain entangled states via various noisy channels (white noise, coloured noise, local depolarization, dephasing and amplitude damping). Entanglement of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wieslaw Laskowski , Tomasz Paterek , Caslav Brukner , Marek Zukowski

We propose a scheme for optimal Gaussian purification of coherent states from several imperfect copies. The proposal is experimentally demonstrated for the case of two copies of a coherent state sent through independent noisy channels. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ulrik L. Andersen , Radim Filip , Jaromir Fiurasek , Vincent Josse , Gerd Leuchs

Generating entanglement between distributed network nodes is a prerequisite for the quantum internet. Entanglement distribution protocols based on high-dimensional photonic qudits enable the simultaneous generation of multiple entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Xiaoyu Liu , Niv Bharos , Liubov Markovich , Johannes Borregaard

We report a bulk optics experiment demonstrating the possibility of restoring the entanglement distribution through noisy quantum channels by inserting a suitable unitary operation (filter) in the middle of the transmission process. We…

Entanglement purification is a crucial technique for promising the effective entanglement channel in noisy large-scale quantum networks, yet complicated in designing protocols in multi-degree of freedom (DoF). To execute the above tasks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Hao Zhang , Xusheng Xu , Chen Zhang , Man-Hong Yung , Tao Huang , Yunjie Liu

Quantum networks rely on high-fidelity entanglement links, but achieving target fidelity often increases latency and Bell pair consumption due to purification. This paper proposes a cost-based scheduler that jointly optimizes path selection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Gongyu Ni , Holger Claussen , Lester Ho

The generation of entanglement across different nodes in distributed quantum architectures plays a pivotal role for different applications. In particular, deterministic, robust, and fast protocols that prepare genuine multipartite entangled…

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Shared entanglement can significantly amplify classical correlations between systems interacting over a limited quantum channel. A natural avenue is to use entanglement of the same dimension as the channel because this allows for unitary…

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…

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