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In quantum networks, one way to communicate is to distribute entanglements through swapping at intermediate nodes. Most existing work primarily aims to create efficient two-party end-to-end entanglement over long distances. However, some…

Quantum entanglement plays an irreplaceable role in various remote quantum information processing tasks. Here we present protocols for generating deterministic and heralded $N$-qubit entangled states across multiple network nodes. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Wen-Qiang Liu , Hai-Rui Wei

Entanglement-assisted discrimination of orthogonal quantum states exhibiting quantum nonlocality is a frontier topic in quantum information theory. In this paper, we investigate the role of multipartite entanglement and develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Ziying Hou , Huaqi Zhou , Limin Gao

This paper addresses resource allocation for entanglement distribution in multi-channel quantum networks. A system model is proposed that integrates a multi-channel quantum network architecture with heterogeneous link characteristics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Gongyu Ni , Lester Ho

Starting from several copies of bipartite noisy entangled states, we design a global and optimal local measurement-based protocol in one- and two-dimensional lattices by which any two or more prefix sites can be connected via entanglement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Ratul Banerjee , Srijon Ghosh , Shiladitya Mal , Aditi Sen De

Superdense coding proved that entanglement-assisted quantum communications can improve the data transmission rates compared to classical systems. It allows sending 2 classical bits between the parties in exchange of 1 quantum bit and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 Sandor Imre

Distributed quantum entanglement plays a crucial role in realizing networks that connect quantum devices. However, sharing entanglement between distant nodes by means of photons is a challenging process primary due to unavoidable losses in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Hikaru Shimizu , Wojciech Roga , David Elkouss , Masahiro Takeoka

Quantum communication networks are emerging as a promising technology that could constitute a key building block in future communication networks in the 6G era and beyond. These networks have an inherent feature of parallelism that allows…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mahdi Chehimi , Walid Saad

Quantum networks use quantum mechanics properties of entanglement and teleportation to transfer data from one node to another. Hence, it is necessary to have an efficient mechanism to distribute entanglement among quantum network nodes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Dibakar Das , Shiva Kumar Malapaka , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

We present a method for quantum entanglement distribution over a so-called code-division-multiple-access network, in which two pairs of users share the same quantum channel to transmit information. The main idea of this method is to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Chang-long Zhu , Nan Yang , Yu-xi Liu , Franco Nori , Jing Zhang

Teleporting an unknown qubit state is a paradigmatic quantum information processing task revealing the advantage of quantum communication protocols over their classical counterpart. For a teleportation protocol using a Bell state as quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Mirko Consiglio , Louis Zammit Mangion , Tony John George Apollaro

Distributing entanglement to distant parties in a network is a central task in quantum information processing and quantum networking. The sensitivity of entangled states to loss necessitates the use of entanglement routing strategies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Xin-An Chen , Caitao Zhan , Joaquin Chung , Jeffrey Larson

For carrying out many quantum information protocols entanglement must be established in advance between two distant parties. Practically, inevitable interaction of entangled subsystems with their environments during distribution and storage…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-19 Xin-Wen Wang , Shi-Qing Tang , Ji-Bing Yuan , Le-Man Kuang

This work explores entanglement-assisted communication, where quantum entanglement resources enable the transmission of classical information at an enhanced rate. We consider a scenario where entanglement is distributed ahead of time based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Stephen DiAdamo , Janis Nötzel

We propose an efficient quantum key distribution scheme based on entanglement. The sender chooses pairs of photons in one of the two equivalent nonmaximally entangled states randomly, and sends a sequence of photons from each pair to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peng Xue , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We investigate the quantum advantage that can arise in typical two-party communication scenarios, where the sender and the receiver are allowed to share prior correlations. Focusing on communication tasks constrained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Satyaki Manna , Ankush Pandit , Debashis Saha

Distributed quantum computing (DQC) provides a promising route toward scalable quantum computation, where entanglement-assisted LOCC and circuit knitting represent two complementary approaches. The former deterministically realizes nonlocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Shao-Hua Hu , Po-Sung Liu , Jun-Yi Wu

A new paradigm for distributed quantum systems where information is a valuable resource is developed. After finding a unique measure for information, we construct a scheme for it's manipulation in analogy with entanglement theory. In this…

Quantum resources, such as entanglement or quantum communication, offer significant communication advantages in information processing. We develop an operational framework for realizing these communication advantages in resource-constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Brian Doolittle , Felix Leditzky , Eric Chitambar

Two tripartite schemes are put forward with shared entanglements and LOCC for sharing an operation on a remote target sate. The first scheme uses a Bell and a symmetric W states as quantum channels, while the second replaces the symmetric W…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 Qibin Jia , Yimin Liub , Xiansong Liua , Xiaofeng Yina , Zhanjun Zhang